His code is beautiful and his explanations are so clear it makes me feel dumb for not seeing his solutions for myself. Obviously his approach is the right way.

His code is beautiful and his explanations are so clear it makes me feel dumb for not seeing his solutions for myself. Obviously his approach is the right way. Except they usually aren't obvious until you've read the explanation. His 22 line spell checker[1] is a perfect example. [1] https://norvig.com/spell-correct.html https://norvig.com/spell-correct.html