> I still like it, because (unlike C++) I can understand it

No article like that is complete without a little C++ critique :-)

> I think it’s the simple, idiomatic versions that are the most telling. This is the code programmers are likely to write in real life.

I very much agree with him on this statement. If people started writing "optimized" versions of algorithms (on that level); who would ever be able to read others peoples code...