[happy4crazy]

I guess I'm not disagreeing with you, but I personally find his style exhilarating. I mean, come on:

Dijkstra used to say “beauty is our business”, to which I would add that life is too short, and bright minds too precious, to waste on ugly things. And if you take this point of view seriously, the best and the brightest are drawn to, rather than repulsed by, the field. Pace some of my colleagues at a Major Institute of Technology, students absolutely do love to program and do love the beauty of code, provided that the code you ask them to write is, in fact, beautiful. There is nothing more dreary than the corporate bureaucracy of OOP, and few things more lovely than the mathematical elegance of FP.

[mattmcknight]

Perhaps I would find it more exhilarating if it didn't directly contradict my own experience, and that of many others.