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For the first time this month the top 5 languages on Tiobe add up to over 50% -- last month it was just under 50%. And those top five are the 5 "C+ languages", i.e...

    C (plus is implied)
    C++
    Java (3rd to rise, with syntax based off C++)
    C# (4 pluses joined together to make a sharp sign)
    Objective C (5th to rise, tho around for longer)

Whereas all the "dynamic" languages in the top 20 (i.e. Basic, PHP, Python, Perl, JavaScript, VB.NET, VB, Ruby) make up only 18% in total.

VB.NET is no more dynamic than either Java or C#. (Less so than C#, if anything: it doesn't support dynamic variables.)

VB is more so than C#. Instead of having the "dynamic" type, which lets you enable late binding for specific references, it has "Option Strict Off". That one enables late binding for every single reference of type Object in the file in which it appears.

And it's had that behavior for much longer than C# has; I think since the very first version of the language. Though I suspect that the implementation of late binding has become more efficient since the DLR came along.

.NET supports awesome meta-programming. CLR allows for some very dynamic types and programs.

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