Certainly so, but read the title again: Tom Pinckney: Why I gave up on Java and switched to Python The author is not arguing that Python is better than Java.

Certainly so, but read the title again: Tom Pinckney: Why I gave up on Java and switched to Python The author is not arguing that Python is better than Java. (It's 2011, why would he do that?) He's telling his reasons for switching. We can disagree with all of them, but we cannot say any of them are invalid because they are “emotional” or “subjective”.