> Class inheritance, as he'd like to see, is not all it's cracked up to be. Just look at Java with its anonymous inner classes, for one incredibly ugly construct...

I'm not sure why you're implying java's anonymous inner classes have much relation with class inheritance.

The vast majority of class-based languages do not have (or need) anonymous inner classes (though some languages allow for creating unnamed classes on the fly by instantiating metaclasses).