One thing that I dislike about this article is that it implies that there is a dichotomy of programmers, and that it falls like this: new web-savvy developers,

One thing that I dislike about this article is that it implies that there is a dichotomy of programmers, and that it falls like this: new web-savvy developers, and old COBOL mainframe programmers. This is not true. There are still cool things being done not on the web, and still places for more traditional development.