dynamic programming language

This article is about a class of programming languages, for the method for reducing the runtime of algorithms, see Dynamic programming. Dynamic programming language is a term used in computer science to describe a class of high-level programming languages which, at runtime, execute many common programming behaviors that static programming languages perform during compilation. These behaviors could include extension of the program, by adding new code, by extending objects and definitions, or by modifying the type system. These behaviors can be emulated in nearly any language of sufficient complexity, but dynamic languages provide direct tools to make use of them. Many of these features were first implemented as native features in the Lisp programming language. Most dynamic languages are also dynamically typed, but not all are. Dynamic languages are frequently (but not always) referred to as ‘scripting languages’, although the term ‘scripting language’ in its narrowest sense refers to languages specific to a given run-time environment.