Comments for Anay Kamat's Weblog

Comment on Just Released: Maya Programming Language by Dan Cook

Dan Cook — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 02:12:04 +0000

I’ve been working on “the best” language I can come up with for an embedded system since 2009 (arguably since 2004), and I am bent on not using compiler tools because I feel they result in less-than-optimal code, and prevent one from actually WRITING a compiler. I found this to side with me:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3314834/what-compiler-tools-are-used-by-official-language-developers

I’ve analyzed many languages and features to pick the best combination for full computational power (including polymorphism on objects) without a lot of overhead. I’d be interested to see what you’ve come up with, and perhaps you’d be interested to see what I am working on: http://tinyurl.com/z80opia

Feel free to email me if you want to discuss this further; and props to you for delving into compiler theory! (You are right, they do not teach people to do this; and when they do, they say to just use tools…)

Comment on How to learn computer programming? by V3King

V3King — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:59:45 +0000

Amazing Post Bro… I Always Love To Read Your Posts… Keep It Up Bro.

Comment on Binding HTML Form Fields To Javascript Objects by kiran

kiran — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 10:11:56 +0000

it is not working fine…. i checked it

Comment on Binding HTML Form Fields To Javascript Objects by kiran

kiran — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 10:11:11 +0000

it is not working fine

Comment on Simple equivalent of “With” statement in C# by Ken Baltrinic

Ken Baltrinic — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 21:47:38 +0000

Interesting idea. I wrote a [blog](http://blog.baltrinic.com/software-development/dotnet/c-equivalent-for-visual-basic-with-statement) some time back that took a similar approach but didn’t use reflection. I like your syntax better but people might find mine a little simpler and possible faster.

Comment on Make free calls from your mobile phone (Even without sim card) by Anay

Anay — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 06:43:00 +0000

Fring is a mobile phone application. It’s not a sim card. It’s not associated with any mobile phone providers.

Comment on RSpec Matchers: Be careful while testing boolean values by David Chelimsky

David Chelimsky — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 20:27:36 +0000

There was an interesting discussion about this just last week at RubyConf in New Orleans. Not so much about RSpec, about Ruby predicates (i.e. methods that end with ‘?’) and “truthiness.” Essentially, nearly all of the time, we write code like this:

if some_predicate?
do_something
end

In that example, do_something would be executed if some_predicate? returned any value other than nil or false, so there is no reason to ensure that it is true or false, just that it is “truthy” or “falsy”

That is the reason that RSpec’s be_true and be_false work as they do and unless you have a very good reason to check the explicit value rather than its meaning in the context of the expression, you should probably just use the matchers as they are.

Comment on Make free calls from your mobile phone (Even without sim card) by Joshua

Joshua — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 12:05:21 +0000

Does fring work like a sim card, do you need to buy it and where will i get some to buy

Comment on Fring with Airtel GPRS by Anay

Anay — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:41:58 +0000

As of now, I am having Nokia E71. And I must say, I am completely satisfied with it.

Comment on Fring with Airtel GPRS by Ronny Rimm

Ronny Rimm — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 06:04:53 +0000

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