now something that random, pointless and fun is what hacking is all about. :-)

Don't you just love purposefully breaking stuff?

Its good to know where the limits are.

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One minor addition to that: Cloak (the JVM in CL) also runs ABCL, for maximum silly recursiveness: http://paste.lisp.org/display/2096

The jwz initials seemed familiar. There was an earlier post linked to the same author about the early days at Netscape: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=100176 (or directly http://www.jwz.org/gruntle/nscpdorm.html?old_title_sucked ).

On a site called Hacker News, jwz should seem familiar.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jwz

(see also rms, esr, dmr, gvr, dhh, etc.)

Is this why your handle is jcl? Getting ready for fame and fortune? ;)

I wish. :) It's a former login, as I'm sure is true of the above list. But not all famous logins are monograms; billg comes to mind...

Monogram logins seem to be an artifact of some computer science departments (and other small, unix-y operations), which may be why so many hackers are known by them.