You can totally "Computer Science" without programming. It's a big field, and a big portion of it is pretty much math. You probably cannot "Applied Computer Science" without programming.
I just replied in the context of the article. I'm assuming if you are doing math proofs all day you probably aren't dealing with "command line bullshittery".
But it does involve command-line bullshittery which is more what the article is about.
The article isn't bemoaning the state of programming languages or their tooling necessarily---more all the steps to get a programming language toolchain off-the-ground and working (like an Android dev environment etc. or a cross-compiling environment).