Object-Oriented Software Construction, Bertrand Meyer Dr. Bertrand Meyer founded and remains chief technical officer of ISE, a software company now in its sixteenth year. He participated in creating ...

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Gradual typing has emerged as a compelling approach to reconcile the strengths of static and dynamic type systems. By permitting programmers to incrementally annotate code, it enables early detection ...

Big news for developers out there: Google has just announced the release of a new, open sourced programming language called Go. The company says that Go is experimental, and that it combines the ...

Microsoft Technical Fellow Anders Hejlsberg drew a big and enthusiastic crowd as he provided a look at the future of the C# programming language in a session at the company's Professional Developers ...

Lux, a new Lisp-like functional language that runs on the Java Virtual Machine, has ambitions to pick up where similar languages leave off. Currently in an 0.5 beta release, Lux claims that while it ...