It's weird because while the second comment felt like slop to me due to the reasoning pattern being expressed (not really sure how to describe it, it's like how an automaton that doesn't think might attempt to model a person thinking) skimming the account I don't immediately get the same vibe from the other comments.

Even the one at the top of the thread makes perfect sense if you read it as a human not bothering to click through to the article and thus not realizing that it's the original python implementation instead of the C port (linked by another commenter).

Perhaps I'm finally starting to fail as a turing test proctor.