From his writing, I never got the feeling that Dijkstra himself hated programming, just that he hated most of the languages and ideas people used. Can you point to a particular essay that echoes this attitude, or is that just based on the (correct) observation that he was more a theorist, and they tend to scoff at the lowly programmer?
Can't point to an essay myself, but I do remember an anecdote from somewhere that he did not actually own a computer until about six years before he died, and he only used it for websurfing.