vmsisbetter

Fine by me, since those developers are doing so on behalf of systems like Java and Python, which fall far below the mark.

However, it has become quite trendy to bash OOP itself, especially here on HN, without acknowledging that there are less awful ways of doing it that just aren't mainstream. Try making similarly blanket criticisms of FP here using Python (Why, it has lambdas and list comprehensions after all--isn't that enough?) or some other impure language and see what happens.

Not strongly enough unfortunately, otherwise it would have metaclasses and class-side inheritance would work correctly.

Rob Pike doesn't know Smalltalk, Self, or Common Lisp/CLOS--why should you care what his opinions are concerning OO as a paradigm?