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Did you actually read the article? Beyond the fact that the aforementioned line is obviously tongue-in-cheek, the author has seemingly implemented an extremely powerful new object system that isn't anything like a rehash of what was there before.

In a truly powerful language you're not straining against your bonds to get profoundly cool things to work. Sure, sometimes that means code evolves into something even a mother couldn't love. But that fact in no way establishes a basis for arguing that somehow languages should be more restrictive to protect people from bad habits.

Bad coding is a universal solvent: you can't make your language into a bottle to hold it.