We have all met someone like it. A colleague who now works in accounting because of his dislike of all modern programming practices is maybe not Mel-class, but

We have all met someone like it. A colleague who now works in accounting because of his dislike of all modern programming practices is maybe not Mel-class, but I have yet to meet anyone who can read hexadecimal with his speed. In the late nineties he apparently found a bunch of optimization errors in the compiler the company used by spending an hour reading through the machine code. I have seen him read machine code once, and it involved him scrolling by holding the down arrow and stopping every 50 rows for 2 seconds. He not only found the error on the first try, but also found a couple of potential bugs.