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This is absolutely insane.

So you counter with utter inanity. Touche!

My opinion has not changed a whit, of modern people or their music. Eddie Van Halen 4eva!

I got the same feeling as brtkdotse when Chris Cornell of Soundgarden died. "They aren't making them like that anymore". And if they are, I haven't found any.

Can you give us an example (like a YouTube link) of a modern guitarist (from the past 15 or so years) that approaches Eddie Van Halen's level of talent or innovation? An uplifting thought is that, like Cornell, although we have lost him, we still have his music.

Another "hacker's guitarist" is Tom Sholz of Boston. If the younger generation has never heard of him, his story is amazing too (an MIT trained engineer; rock star; built his own gear; wrote, played, recorded and produced his own work):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Scholz

While his style is a little different than EVH, he has a similar innovative spirit.

Femtolisp has a nice, comprehensible Lisp reader written in C, with syntax very similar to Common Lisp:

https://github.com/JeffBezanson/femtolisp/blob/master/read.c

CMUCL has a fairly complex, but still comprehensible implementation of a Common Lisp reader:

https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/cmucl/cmucl/-/blob/master/src...

It uses a FSM to recognize numbers and symbols when tokenizing, and it demonstrates an implementation of Common Lisp readtables.

Here's how the Common Lisp Hyperspec specifies the Common Lisp reader (as an algorithm):

http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/02_b.h...