"Late binding" is one of those computer-sciency terms that, like "strong typing", means different things to different people. I thought I might describe what the term means to me. First off, what is "binding"? We can't understand what it means to bind late if we don't know what it is to bind at all. A compiler is by definition a device which takes in a text written in one language and outputs code that "means the same thing" in another language. The compiler I work on, for example, takes in C#
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