* 2011-07-18T10:54:40+10:00 * Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Back in 2007, a n00b calling himself "TheFlyingDutchman" who I am > *reasonably* sure was Rick decided to fork Python: > > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2007-September/1127123.html
I don't know if they are the same person but quite recently "TheFlyingDutchman" tried to understand symbols, variables' scope, bindings as well as function and variable namespaces in Common Lisp. It resulted in a long thread, some of it was quite interesting. http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/browse_frm/thread/36000a1f37ebb052/5683597dd587fa87 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
