There are many comments here that he won because of his programming/thinking skills versus using the Lisp language, and I think this true in comparison to the o

There are many comments here that he won because of his programming/thinking skills versus using the Lisp language, and I think this true in comparison to the other contestants. However, one thing he mentions that is an interesting piece of the puzzle -- and a common theme in language competitions that include Lisp -- is: Lisp doesn’t get in my way as much as other languages. After getting hooked I learned to value the interactive development environment, the object system, etc.. What’s good about Lisp is rapid development and speedy execution. This might be a small effect, and you can have good programmers in every language, but if he was just as familiar with Java as he was with Lisp, could he have accomplished the same results in the same time with Java? How would the code look?