Eric Hodges

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

"A fish cannot live in distilled water." -- MaoZedong.

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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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