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I don't think there's one true set of weights - rather, I think it's a matter of personal preference (and, to a certain extent, the task at hand - maintainability is irrelevant for some tasks and vital for others).
I could see this in the extremes (a one-of data-munging script has no maintainability requirement, for example), but accepting the weights as completely subjective seems dangerously close to saying "All languages are equally powerful, and it's just a matter of preference", which I disagree with because it would invalidate the Blub Paradox. It may be the case that the weights are affected by individual tastes and requ…
I don't agree with this statement...I would say that Java is worse than Python for just about any given set of weights.