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> an infamous troll on comp.lang.lisp

Are you perhaps confusing him with Erik Naggum, cos there just happens to be a post on HN about Erik right now. And Erik could be something special when a fuse blew!

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No, Xah was a troll. He trolled on groups i read, too - comp.lang.java.programmer or comp.lang.python, or both.

I remember him in comp.lang.python (IIRC for a couple of years after 2000).

Erik was also a famous troll on comp.lang.lisp. There were multiple famous trolls on usenet.

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