If this is all tongue-in-cheek then what does it really amount to though? A good-natured ribbing of Google employees? I'm in total agreement that programming is

If this is all tongue-in-cheek then what does it really amount to though? A good-natured ribbing of Google employees? I'm in total agreement that programming is hard, but I don't think it's hard because of languages that pack in features, its hard because of languages that don't ensure reasonable semantics or provide you the tools to enforce them. Programming is hard because its inherently powerful... languages that allow you to circumscribe that power are what keeps me sane though, not particularly the ones you can fit on an index card.