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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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