I feel like the author is just wasting the reader's time. This thing is 88 printed pages (probably 50 if he had used a reasonable font size) of somewhat dubious history of programming languages, a section of options, and then a long section on his fantasy ideal language to replace Fortran. Finally, in the conclusion, he does a rug pull. The conclusion is that he wants is something like this:
> subversion and sedition—Right so, I now divulge my most subversive idea regarding programming language syntax: every programmer on every project ought to be free to choose the syntax he favours. [emphasis in original]
Only he doesn't mention the prior art at all, I'm not sure if he's even aware of it.
https://martinfowler.com/bliki/IntentionalSoftware.html
Quoting the overlong piece:
> subversion and sedition—Right so, I now divulge my most subversive idea regarding programming language syntax: every programmer on every project ought to be free to choose the syntax he favours. [emphasis in original]
Only he doesn't mention the prior art at all, I'm not sure if he's even aware of it.