There are a couple of reasons that isn't a valid conclusion. First the value of prototyping was reduced by the length of the contest (as opposed to the contest

There are a couple of reasons that isn't a valid conclusion. First the value of prototyping was reduced by the length of the contest (as opposed to the contest being 48 hours) and by the fact the forum members provided some good strategies to the winner so he did not have to uncover them himself. Second it turned out one of the most effective algorithms involved brute-force, an area which C/C++ excels at. Actually it is surprising Haskell, Scheme, and Python ended up in the top 10% at all, I would like to see how they did it.