Dynamic languages

[Marcel van den Dungen]

"Tom B." <sbabbitt at commspeed.net> wrote in message news:<1093650026.763899 at news.commspeed.net>...
> I doubt that this is what they mean but a dynamic language is a language
> that is still evolving (Python) as opposed to a dead language (COBOL).
> 
> They probably are referring to programs that can add and remove components
> during runtime.

Dynamic refers to the typing of variables. In Python variables get a
type dynamically when assigned a value.
See also: http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=4639
and several blog posting of Bruce Eckel on this subject:
http://www.mindview.net/WebLog/

Marcel.