aeroegnr

A reader of J. Orlin Grabbe's "The End of Ordinary Money"?

A contemporary and more fitting example of a musical hacker would be Imogen Heap.

I've seen videos of her constructing songs from audio loops of her own voice in real time.

Thanks for the inputs, I'm finding SICP too enlightening to put down entirely without finishing it.

Is it C itself that is important, or just the concepts? Most of the concepts seem to be contained in what I learned when I took C++ (and have used on some projects). For example, function pointers made one of the projects I was working on very simple.

I have a copy of K&R laying around that I haven't worked through, and thumbing through it seems pretty similar to what I saw in C++.

I tested myself earlier today while on a layover by SSHing into my server and trying to make some simple C++ code to play with pointers, but since I didn't have the reference I couldn't debug a situation where I was dereferencing a pointer... Maybe I'll look into that a bit if I end up needing a similar feature.

I'm torn a bit on exactly what language to hit the ground running with, as far as building actual products. Clojure looks interesting, but I also haven't decided if I want to make something platform-independent and running on the JVM or not, or go all the way with SBCL (and the help of PG's and Peter Seibel's books).

I think I'm letting myself get paralysed by too many options (although certain ideas of mine are MUCH easier to do in a Lisp).

I think that I have decided to continue reading SICP and work only the exercises that are absolutely necessary for understanding new concepts. I skimmed the remainder and I think that there is some essential information that I should know.