Disagreeing with someone's thesis is not the same as them making an error. Like maybe you don't find their argument compelling, but that's not the same as them making a factual error.
Since everyone already clearly understand what he means, so let's avoid playing semantics and instead focus on being clear and straightforward. It seems that your questions are only leading to more confusion and not offering any valuable perspectives.
My objection was i thought the original comment was being rude, not that it was hard to understand.
Politeness is an orthogonal concept to truth. The article clearly states that programming philosophies "can be boiled down into a simple statement", and the comment you were referring to takes issue with this.