Do you think if it were repeated today with a recent version of the JDK Java development time might be less? Probably not as low as Lisp but things have improve

Do you think if it were repeated today with a recent version of the JDK Java development time might be less? Probably not as low as Lisp but things have improved in Java land since 1.2. That synopsis of a study is nice but I'm still not convinced all the important variables were isolated.