It was about "the future of programming" as it should have (or could have) been, as seen from the 70s.
"These are some good ideas. It would be kind of a shame if in 40 years [ie, today] we're still coding in procedures in text files in a sequential programming model. That would suggest we didn't learn anything from this really fertile period of computer science [...] The real tragedy would be if people forgot you could have new ideas about programming models in the first place."
"Once you grow up with dogma, it's really hard to break out of it".
