Not exactly. You have to remember that language and compiler design require a LOT of work and experience to understand, and that many programmers will only see this as, frankly, spaghetti.
I think it could have used some more block comments, but that's just me.
Of course figuring out what it's doing is one thing - understanding why it is done in this particular way is another, and while I was able to find my way around fairly quickly I'd cry if I had to re-implement it. I do love how small it is though, that gives it great educational value.
Isn't that the reason for comments in the first place?
The 'why' of a very low-level tools like this is the sort of thing that needs to be explored at length in a paper or (in this case) a book, otherwise they'll swamp the actual code. Sometimes as a learning exercise I'll take something like this and comment the hell out of everything, but the value there is more in writing the comments than trying to read them again later. Of course this is very much a matter of personal taste.
reverseNaturalSortOrder(listOfItems); // case sensitive sort of items by reverse alphabetical order
or
reverseNaturalSortOrder(listOfItems); // sort this way because the upper layer expects items in reverse order since user requested it
I think it is usually significantly easier to understand what something is doing rather than why it is doing that. To answer the former it usually requires a narrow scope of focus, but the latter requires a very broad scope.
Mind, I mostly do hobby/experimental programming, I've just been doing it for a long time. So I'm not commending this as a work practice or anything - your point about business logic made good sense.