On page 8 where they speculate about the long term evolution they get even closer to how the field feels today:
> "This fundamental change will occur in several ways.
[...] programmers will become able to express the desired
function of a program in terms of its expected behavior
and output(s) without having to specify the precise algor-
ithms involved in performing the processing.
Third,
many programmers will then move away from concern
with the "how" of programming to concentrate more
heavily on the "what"; applications programming will
then become equivalent to today's task of requirements
analysis and specification. In short, both the nature of
programming and the nature of programmers will
change."
> "This fundamental change will occur in several ways. [...] programmers will become able to express the desired function of a program in terms of its expected behavior and output(s) without having to specify the precise algor- ithms involved in performing the processing.
Third, many programmers will then move away from concern with the "how" of programming to concentrate more heavily on the "what"; applications programming will then become equivalent to today's task of requirements analysis and specification. In short, both the nature of programming and the nature of programmers will change."