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Relevant: "How (and why) developers use the dynamic features of programming languages" <https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-012-9203-2 https://doi.org/10.1007/s1066

by cxr 4y ago

Relevant: "How (and why) developers use the dynamic features of programming languages" <https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-012-9203-2 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-012-9203-2> <https://users.dcc.uchile.cl/~rrobbes/p/EMSE-features.pdf https://users.dcc.uchile.cl/~rrobbes/p/EMSE-features.pdf>

dmux 4y ago
Thanks for sharing this! In the last couple of years I've moved from being primarily a Java developer to a nodejs developer and I love exploring what dynamic languages bring to the table.
- cxr 4y ago
  I'm not sure that attitude is the right takeaway from the paper I linked.
igouy 4y ago
""How (and why) developers use the dynamic features of programming languages: the case of smalltalk"" https://www.inf.unibz.it/~rrobbes/p/EMSE-features.pdf https://www.inf.unibz.it/~rrobbes/p/EMSE-features.pdf
- cxr 4y ago
  Huh?
  - igouy 4y ago
    I just didn't see that the second URL was the pdf.