How developers use the dynamic features of programming languages: The case of smalltalk

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 23-32

  Callaú, Oscar ^a   Robbes, Romain ^a   Tanter, Éric ^a   Röthlisberger, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

dynamic languages; smalltalk; static analysis

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES; DYNAMIC FEATURES; DYNAMIC LANGUAGES; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; INFORMED DECISION; LANGUAGE EXTENSIONS; RUNTIMES; SMALLTALK; TOOL SUPPORT; TYPE SYSTEMS;

STATIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 79959260409     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1985441.1985448     Document Type: Conference Paper

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