This rules. The other weekend I was feeling curious and started a little project to see what it takes to get up and running doing basic audio synthesis: https://github.com/nicolasmiller/bleeper. I got distracted with some other stuff, but the goal is to compile examples in as many languages/environments as possible.
Ditto. It conflicted annoyingly with what I already had playing. I managed to take in about four seconds of her vocal before realizing that it was unspeakably bland.
I'm well aware of the history. I was ironically posing the question in a probably slightly mean-spirited attempt to poke fun at him for not having written any notable software. I suppose he deserves credit for the philosophical contributions. The whole initials thing is ultimately pretty stupid. Maybe I was trying to get at why it's even become a convention. Why there is so much ego in the field in general.
"A figure of little consequence in [his] own time..." I thought of Raymond himself. Who decided that this guy deserved to be one of the lucky few with canonical hacker initials?
Really?