[gtrak]

There are objective measures. There aren't necessarily 'absolute' ones.

Lisp is relatively more concise than C or Java for the same tasks.

Java is relatively safer than C for the same tasks.

[cratermoon]

How objective can something be if the criteria vary depending on the comparison?

[gtrak]

I'm not sure what you mean.

Lines of code is an objective measure. How meaningful that might actually be, well, that's subjective.