The Google AI Challenge recently wrapped up with a Lisp developer from Hungary as the winner. The competition challenges contestants to create bots that push the limits of AI and game theory. These bots compete against one another, and a complete ranking of competitors is available. The big story today is that the winner (Gábor Melis) used Lisp to beat out over 4000 other contestants around the world using a host of different programming languages.
Paul Graham has stated that Java was designed for "average" programmers while other languages (like Lisp) are for good programmers. The fact that the winner of the competition wrote in Lisp seems to support this assertion. Or should we see Mr. Melis as an anomaly who happened to use Lisp for this task?
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