You just perfectly described someone I knew
No, he wasn't Russian. Hungarian. Did most of his training in Hungaria, and I think some in Russia.
I always put it down to the fact that he started programming in the 1960s. But now I wonder...
Cheers,
Ben
"good ideas and bad code build communities, the other three combinations do not"
- [link|http://archives.real-time.com/pipermail/cocoon-devel/2000-October/003023.html|Stefano Mazzocchi]