This sort of has a 'straw-man' feel to me. 
    I've never heard the "Elite Programming Language"
    deconstructed in this essay.

I all but admit to coining the term in the first paragraph. It's a term without baggage that is meant to encapsulate many related terms: hipster, academic, complex, obscure, !blub, etc. To say that the post is a straw-man is to deny these other terms exist and are used to mean roughly the same thing.