Gradual Evolution.

The article reports on dynamically typed programming languages and their adoption of static typing towards growth. These include JavaScript, Python and Perl. It mentions their assessment of programs for errors which alleviates writing of applications despite of hidden bugs. It notes an annotation an...

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Published in:	Communications of the ACM Vol. 57; no. 10; pp. 16 - 19
Main Author:	Savage, Neil
Format:	Article
Published:	Association for Computing Machinery Oct2014
Subjects:	Programming languages JavaScript programming language Python programming language Perl (Computer program language) TypeScript (Computer program language) Hejlsberg, Anders Microsoft Research (Company) Error detection (Information theory) Metadata
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost

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Summary:	The article reports on dynamically typed programming languages and their adoption of static typing towards growth. These include JavaScript, Python and Perl. It mentions their assessment of programs for errors which alleviates writing of applications despite of hidden bugs. It notes an annotation and its role as a metadata that determines the function for a specific variable. An overview of the continuum of development languages and the views of Microsoft Research Technical Fellow Anders Hejlsberg on the TypeScript program is also presented.