I thought it would have been obvious to anyone that this is satire, but then again I know that it was explicitly presented as such the first time I read this text so I'm probably biased.
Was the first thing I ctrl+f'd for, the second being 'satire' and here we are. Hi! :)
That's exactly what he'd say though isn't it? The funny part about it is that one can never tell if it's true or not.
"I wonder what would happen, if there were a language so complicated, so difficult to learn, that nobody would ever be able to swamp the market with programmers?"
Why would anyone say that about a language they designed?
I mean, writing shitty unmaintainable code for job security is not an uncommon thing, so this is the logical next step. Why not?