Well I'm a young one, started programming in '97 when I was 11 so yeah, maybe I don't get it but I feel like he's missing something here. There's more to it than just languages, platforms, and frameworks. To me the most exciting thing about programming these days is shared knowledge. We've always had a lot of sharing of source code, techniques, and styles but it feels like now, more than any other time, programming is now more open and accessible to more people than ever before. Yes, it's still hard as ever but the resources available to us like GitHub, sites like Codeacademy, the thousands of free tools circulating have lowered the barrier to entry for anyone with a deep enough desire to push through resources and learn it. Before there were far fewer resources to learn. It was mostly books, classes, and your programmer friend. The web helped but not as much. It's really exciting to see us all teaching each other more than ever.

Or maybe I'm wrong and far too green to have an opinion.