"This competition can be viewed as an AI contest. But it can also be viewed as a programming contest. And it was a question of speed: how quick your developme

"This competition can be viewed as an AI contest. But it can also be viewed as a programming contest. And it was a question of speed: how quick your development is; how much your tools drag you down. This is where I see that Lisp is just great. It allows me to iterate extremely quickly over ideas."