John Carmack glorifying functional programing in 3k words

[Chris Angelico]

On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Michael Torrie <torriem at gmail.com> wrote:
> Others who have crossed this list appear to have aspergers or autism
> too, such as Ranting Rick.  He pops up occasionally, posts quite
> normally and even helpfully, and then lapses back into periods of
> ranting about how he can fix python and we all should be doing
> something.  He refuses to write code to put his ideas into practice, and
> berates the list readers for being lazy and unwilling to code this
> ideas.  Then eventually he disappears for months even years at a time
> before resurfacing.  I've always been curious to know more about Rick.
> Where does he work?  How does he live, and what does he do outside of
> the python list (he appears to only use his e-mail address on this list).

My first thought was that he was the alt of some regular poster - that
he's the email account used for trolling, keeping it separate from the
regular address. But that theory hasn't really gained credence.

ChrisA