Agreed. I suspect he was always an easily-frustrated, OCD, crabby hacker. And those aspects of his personality would be exaggerated by the level of communicati

Agreed. I suspect he was always an easily-frustrated, OCD, crabby hacker. And those aspects of his personality would be exaggerated by the level of communication and questions and input that he's come to receive over the years. Doesn't make it 'right', or 'kind', but I suppose it gets things done.