EricHodges
Last edit February 24, 2006
Eric Hodges is
- a man
- a domesticated primate
- a father
- a computer programmer
- a CraftIte
- a composer
- a naive guitar player
- an award winning percussionist
- a bad drummer
- a simplistic keyboard player
- a bad saxophone player
- a GoedelWeenie
- a weirdo
- a poseur
- a dude who really misses the space between his first and last names
- "the BoogerClub chap"
- Deacon in the ChurchOfOoBigots
- incapable of decoding emotion conveyed through dance
- a practitioner of BullshitOrientedDesign
- the author of XoYnKi
- a gracious editor
- a fatalist
I've started to write my own Lisp implementation in Java. AreDesignPatternsMissingLanguageFeatures convinced me (apparently subconsciously) that I need features only Lisp can provide. I've been learning Lisp with clisp, but my inability to find a decent GUI package for Windows led me to the (perhaps insane) conclusion that I'd be better off writing my own Lisp in Java so I could use the Swing library. This is the first time I've tried to learn a language by implementing it. So far it's been a lot of fun, but I haven't reached macros yet. The sense of "turtles all the way down" is quite visceral, even when I'm writing Java code that emulates bits that ought to be Lisp code. I wish I'd done this years ago. -- EH
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