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There are more options Like: Mainsoft Cross Platfo...

2007-09-23T18:27:00.000+05:30

There are more options Like: Mainsoft Cross Platform Development.
This is .NET to Java Cross Platform Development.

If you're serious about functional programming, it...

2007-06-27T11:03:00.000+05:30

If you're serious about functional programming, it might make sense to constrain yourself to one while learning about it. Try Erlang or Haskell.

Scala is pretty sweet too, with it's mix of functional and OO models. It runs on the JVM, which AFAIC is a major plus.

Read my blog post if you want (yes! another hit on my blog! :-). BTW, there should be one coming on Scala soon.

1) In a ProcFactory?2) My answer to any test-relat...

2007-02-22T02:46:00.000+05:30

1) In a ProcFactory?

2) My answer to any test-related question these days seems to be: Mocks. State-based testing on Procs seems problematic .. edge cases and whatnot. To test the example from ruby docs I'd do something like:

require 'test/unit'
require 'rubygems'
require 'mocha'

def gen_times(factor)
return Proc.new {|n| n*factor }
end

class ProcTestCase < Test::Unit::TestCase
def test_proc
multiplier = 3
input = mock() #=> would be Fixnum 12
input.expects(:*).with(multiplier).returns(36)
times3 = gen_times(multiplier)
output = times3.call(input) #=> 36
assert_equal(output, 36)
end
end