On the sickness of our community

But, of whom? An anonymous person? I still maintain it's just abuse of a personification of bad code... The target of the attack isn't a real person, but the stupid coding design... I'm not sure I'm worried about code being verbally abused... Lord knows I've cursed out my fair share over the decades!

I see what he said there to be roughly the same as saying, "Who was the moron who thought gets() was a great function to include in the standard library?? I hope whoever they are, they get eaten by wolves!"... It's not really attacking any real person; it's inventing an imaginary person which personifies the bad code in question and attacking that, and doing so in an obviously hyperbolic and non-serious manner...