The April Fool's joke PEP 0401 is really funny and so its current implementation.
It works very good interactively from the terminal or by python3 -i from the standart input, but surprisingly not from a normal script or without -i. It works by eval(...) or by compile(..) this way:
As mentioned above, barry is Barry Warsaw, a well known Core Python Dev
However, the FLUFL has not been explained
It stands for "Friendly Language Uncle For Life" an inside joke among the other python core devs at the time. The reason this enables the <> syntax, is that he was the primary person who wanted to use the <> operator