Comment by jonashus

Yes, no, I think he has different mental capabilities than most (most of the commenters here at least) and by that actually are living in a different reality. Human brains function vastly different. Two examples stood out to me.

1) UB said he reads the code in its full from left to right with the if(isTooHot) example. I only resort to reading code in that way as a last resort if I really can't figure out what the code is doing. I mean I look at a block or row and take it in more as a whole.

2) UB said comments are annoying because he has to read them and keep the whole of the comment text in his mind. This again says he reads everything left to right, and he can likely store everything that he has read up to a certain amount.

My mind works nothing like that. I can hold very few words in my working memory but can instead hold concepts/ideas. For that to work good I need to see as much of the involved code as possible and my mental image evaporates if I have to navigate too far where I started.