I mean, I think that was a bit of a joke. It's ironic that you rail against this dude for "code that's hard to understand" in reply to a long-form prose article about understanding the code and how it got there..

We'll probably have to agree to disagree.. but that blog post doesn't really resonate for me... especially the end where it talks about keep it to your "own language." I've never had patience for identity politics especially in the case of a god-damn programming language.