Is he still harping on those silly ideas? By now it should have become clear to him that they're just pipe dreams. Programming is a creative process that is significantly determined by the expressive possibilities in the language you program in. Nobody would demand that a poet practice their art using the vocabulary of a tabloid newspaper, while also having to strictly adhere to fixed meter and write the whole thing with primitive tools.
As long as software development clings to primitive languages like C++, Visual Basic, or Java, the problem won't be solved in any meaningful way - whoever has low-level languages at their disposal will always think low-level.
Solutions to this problem have been available since the 80s, it's time the software industry took a closer look at them...
At heise online news there's the original article.