[cylvers]

There IS no "objectively better" language.

Of course there is.

I agree that that there are objectively better and worse languages. (brainfuck is a kind of proof of conception for this, right?)

I think, however, that comparing languages is much more complicated and difficult than most people allow for. Most comparisons are made on the basis of a few issues that the comparator happens to care about, ignoring many other possible methods of comparison.

We've all experienced this when advocate of language x completely misses the point in his critique of our own favorite languages. These reductionist comparisons naturally lead to distrust of all comparisons of languages.

Knowing that there are better and worse languages does not necessarily give us the ability to determine which languages are better and which are worse.