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Re:Introducing Swift by gtrak on Tuesday June 03, 2014 @12:35PM (#7841199)
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.

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Re:Introducing Swift by cratermoon on Tuesday June 03, 2014 @04:30PM (#7842534)
How objective can something be if the criteria vary depending on the comparison?
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Re:Introducing Swift by gtrak on Wednesday June 04, 2014 @01:39PM (#7846984)
I'm not sure what you mean.

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

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