Lisp as an Alternative to Java

In the October 1999 Communications of the ACM Lutz Prechelt had an interesting article entitled Comparing Java vs. C/C++ Efficiency Issues to Interpersonal Issues which asked 38 programmers to implement versions of a program in C, C++, or Java. The conclusions showed that Java was 3 or 4 times slower than C or C++, but that the variance between programmers was larger than the variance between lang