Objects have failed

Interesting view on object-oriented programming languages. Full text is here. I was always wondering how could someone do such a ugly language as C++ from such a nice language as C. The author goes further and says that "programmer in Fortran can write a Fortran program in any language", or something like that. He describes different problems of modern object-oriented languages and he seems to be right. I doubt that FOL-based or LISP-like languages will be successful as general-purpose languages in this decade... However, it would be interesting to see their further develoment.