Early and late binding.
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 22:57:19 GMT
Message-ID: <jPUzf.9624$8r1.296_at_trndny01>
The discussion about dynamic typing and the discussion about Dawn's new blog both put me in mind of an old topic: early and late binding.
I searched the web, and got a lot of articles on this subject. All the ones I've read so far deal with two specific instances of early and late binding. One is about the early or late binding of variables to types, the statis and dynamic binding topic. The other is about early or late binding of operators to class specific methods in an object oriented environment.
These two are fine topics in and of themselves, but my recollection is that the overall topic of early and late binding is quite a bit more generic than that.
Dawn, the reason youer blog reminds me of this is that many of the features that you claim add to cost without adding to productivity seems like cases of early binding to me. And many of the features that you say you've identified as positive seem like cases of late binding.
It's possible that there's a more abstract treatment of early and late binding than the ones I've managed to locate so far.
Dawn, I'm by no means sure, but it's possible the binding subject could provide you with a unifying principle for your commentary. Received on Thu Jan 19 2006 - 23:57:19 CET