Brooks wrote "No Silver Bullet" in 01987. The examples of high-level languages he mentions in his paper are Ada, Modula (not sure whether the 01975 version or Modula-2), Simula-67, APL, Pascal, Smalltalk, Fortran, COBOL, PL/I, and Algol, and of these he thinks Ada is the most promising. Does his thesis hold up in the face of modern programming language advances?
I am not confident that there are programs I can write in Python, JS, or OCaml in one hour that nobody can write in Ada in ten hours, and programs in those languages in ten hours that nobody can write in Ada in 100 hours. I'm even less confident that they beat Smalltalk by as much. The exception is for very small programs: you can write things in Python in 5 minutes that nobody can write in Ada in an hour.
http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/rpneact.py is maybe one example, which I wrote over the course of about 12 hours on January 2. It's a simple interactive calculator app that includes a general-purpose numerical equation solver; from the Python standard library it gets floating-point and complex arithmetic, regular expressions, and command-line editing. I don't think it would take me even as long as 120 hours to write it in C, which is roughly the same level as Ada but more painful to debug.
Similarly, http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/lmu.py is a very limited MUD, where multiple users can connect, interact, and collaboratively build a textual world by creating rooms and other objects and setting their descriptions: sort of like a Wiki for interactive fiction, though without much richness of interaction. I wrote this between July 18 and July 24 last year, probably taking more than 20 hours in total. Writing it in C would have been slower but surely would not have taken 200 hours.
The main thing that's happened since 01987 is that computers have gotten a lot faster and bigger, so we can get by without as much attention to efficiency, and software libraries are also enormously more powerful. It's not that much easier now to write a SQL database than it was in 01987, but it's a hell of a lot easier to link in SQLite. It's not that much easier to write a regular expression matcher, but every modern language has one in the standard library already. Rendering Telugu text properly still involves a lot of hairy cases, but whether you're in a terminal or a browser, generally all you need to do is emit some UTF-8 bytes and you're golden.