[undertow]

His replies to some of the comments wink at the possibility that he thoroughly enjoys the rancor and consternation stirred in the minds of that particular subset of his readers.

e.g.

  That problem will go away once the optimizer is 
  taught to recognize this operator. Then we could 
  call it the rocket-powered tadpole.
    - Raymond

Consider the people, who haven't commented, instead simply skimming this post, without reading deeper, then showing up to work on Monday, and dutifully explaining to colleagues about a new operator they learned of.