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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://users.dcc.uchile.cl/~rrobbes/p/EMSE-features.pdf>



""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


Huh?


I just didn't see that the second URL was the pdf.


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.


I'm not sure that attitude is the right takeaway from the paper I linked.




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