EDN

Using the static keyword in C

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 ...
Ars Technica

Static class member value destroyed before the instance of the class itself with GCC but not with Clang?

Consider a simple class of which I create only a single instance (global variable), and that has a number of static member variables, one of which (s_lmdbEnv) is an instance of a C++ wrapper class of ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Local Static Variables in Visual Basic and C#

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 ...
InfoWorld

Static considered harmful?

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 ...