[smcl]

No idea. He claimed on HN to me years ago that he found the Arthur Whitney k interpreter code[0] to be easy to read, and said that I was revealing my own incompetence by saying I found it to be quite impenetrable. I see only one comment under his name so he's somehow got his comments bulk-deleted.

He's undoubtedly a good developer, he's just also quite ... headstrong shall we say :)

[0] - see http://kparc.com/b/a.c, worth noting that I was persuaded by another much more recently to give it a shot so my feelings towards this style have softened slightly.

[piva00]

He's like many other amazing technical people: very good with their technical skills which they believe validate their own ego to be arrogant over the ones they consider to be lesser due to diminished prowess in the same set of skills.

It's an abhorrently sad state of living a life in my view. But they can make money and technical feats that not many others can furthering validating their inflated ego.