Well, I share his fears (not too much) but when I broad my horizon, I see that in not-so-distant-future, just because of easy way to create new language (deriving, compositing, etc), you wouldn't need to be programmer, just domain expert.

I say we all should do DSLs that are even more complicated and user-foely constructed, so that we all keep our holy jobs, he he he

And one day, when our DSLs will be crawling over the earth (maybe space?) they wouldn't dare firing someone with arcane lore of the DSL usage

Of course, there should be some protocol or convetion or even just a simple rule that a backdoor should be left int the language and that knowledge will be heritaged from father to son ))))

Gees...over 34 hours of awakeness takes its tool. Sorry ))

There are many more operators today than there were back then. Now they are called receptionists, secretaries, call-center agents, and the like. There are even some places where they are still called operators.