On Saturday, 24 August 2013 at 16:19:07 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
The fault of LOC is precisely that people "fairly intuitively"
understand it. The problem is that no two people's intuitions
ever
match. So any conclusions drawn from LOC must necessarily be
subjective, and really not that much better than saying "I feel
like
language A is better than language B, because I just like it
better, and
besides, it has a nicer color (aka better LOC or whatever other
subjective metric)."
That sounds to be the exactly what we wish to capture.
Which is fine, if that's what you're looking for. But let's not
pretend
it has anything to do with the objective quality of a language.
See above. What use is an objective measure when peoples taste
for a language is subjective?
