Primitives in Smalltalk are not objects? Then how come I can send messages to strings? Numbers aren't objects either? Then how come integers have so many methods, most of which are inherited from an abstract base class called Number?

For that matter, unless you're working in an edition of Fortran that's older than you and possibly also your parents, trying to blame the language for tangled, unreadable code is kind of silly.

I, too, am growing tired of the "I don't know much about it, all I know is I don't like it!" genre of articles.