[trapper]

I refer you to:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1016762

What's wrong with that as evidence for lisps superiority?

[jules]

What's wrong is that they measured the performance of Lisp programmers vs Java/C++ programmers. This is fine but you're not comparing the merits of the programming language. The Lisp programmers would win even if they were forced to program in Java.