More Words, Deeper Hole

That might be true if it was Some Random Kewl Programming Language(TM). But it's not. While I disagree with some of the points presented, at least there is a method to the madness. Just ask yourself why it's not something like Lisp, for example. If that seems to be a nonsensical question, then this might be a case of the author assuming too much from his audience. Just as an earlier generation of general readers might have been flummoxed by Hohman transfer orbits, perigee, Lagrange points, etc, so might the generation of today might be understandably confused about the design principles behind programming languages.