One of our favorite nuances of the C programming language (and its descendants) is the static keyword. It’s a little bit tricky to get your head around at first, because it can have two (or three) ...

There are many topics in the C language that often confuse developers but the use of the static keyword seems to be one of the more common. One of the points of confusion is how static affects ...

The original C language was a great programming tool. Created back in the early 1970s, it remains one of the most influential computer languages more than four decades later. As a .NET developer, you ...

Gilad makes the case that static, that staple of C++, C#/VB.NET, and Java, does not belong: Most imperative languages have some notion of static variable. This is unfortunate, since static variables ...

(The C++ Programming Language, "special" edition, because I'm a very "special" person -- -- ) This seems to imply that static local variables are NOT initialized before the start of main() (as static ...

In this tip, I'd like to show a simple technique that allows switching between multiple versions of the code at runtime. Often, when I'm testing a new solution, I'd like to run an old version and make ...

In general, dynamic means energetic or forceful, while static means stationary. In computer terminology, dynamic usually means capable of action or change, while static means fixed. The terms dynamic ...