No. He means "clever" or "inquisitive." The way I think about programming changed a lot from having used different programming paradigms. Many programming para

No. He means "clever" or "inquisitive." The way I think about programming changed a lot from having used different programming paradigms. Many programming paradigms have little real-world value, but they do make you think about computation, abstraction, and lots of other concepts differently. That grows your brain in ways which are useful when you go back to your 9-5 Python/JavaScript/Java/C#/etc. I no longer have time to do these sorts of deep dives, but I did this a lot when I was young, and I'm a much better programmer for it. I'd look at what he's writing over how he communicates it. Perhaps the language might be arrogant or self-congratulatory, but it benefits you more to look at what he's saying than how he says it. (responding to thread here; you obviously didn't make this mistake)