The author, Luke Gorrie, is a true hacker's hacker who built a good chunk of Emacs' Slime environment for Common Lisp. He ended up in Sweden to be part of the f

The author, Luke Gorrie, is a true hacker's hacker who built a good chunk of Emacs' Slime environment for Common Lisp. He ended up in Sweden to be part of the first successful Erlang-based business Bluetail, which got sold to Nortel IIRC. (I imagine "Snabb" is closely related to "snappy" in English.)