Yes. Plus, it's somewhat arrogant to deride the legibility of someone else's code, in comparison to your own rewrite, considering: (a) It's an order of magnitu

Yes. Plus, it's somewhat arrogant to deride the legibility of someone else's code, in comparison to your own rewrite, considering: (a) It's an order of magnitude more difficult to write original code than to port code from one domain to another. (b) It's an order of magnitude more difficult to understand someone else's code than something you've just finished writing. It would be a different story had he had created the rewrite, and had a third party discuss both versions.