Grok used in a sentence

Grok in a sentence as a verb

I doubt many Rubyists really understand or grok what that means.

Google is not going to pay by the hour for a developer to stare at a function until they grok it; they want a feature.

But I grok pair-programming: it's the same kind of coding you did in college where a couple of people would sit around figuring out a problem.

A 12 credit semester might mean 80 hours outside of class writing code, reading books, trying desperately to grok complex data structured and mind-bending math.

Scala is probably not a big enough leap to discipline yourself to grok functional just b/c it's so easy to relapse into non-functional patterns and Scala will happily comply.

There is no unifying principle to help you grok the language* The Community is all about quick hacky fixes to already broken code and this approach seems to flow from the core developers out.* It's not type safe, not even at runtime.