I also seem to recall a paper from the 90s or early 2000s which compared speed of development & program execution between Lisp & other languages. Maybe it was somewhere on Ron Garrett's site? IIRC, Lisp programs were developed consistently more quickly than C/C++/Java/SmallTalk, and were normally faster than all but the very fastest C/C++ programs — but I could misremember. I remember that it had some interesting-looking charts.
I also seem to recall a paper from the 90s or early 2000s which compared speed of development & program execution between Lisp & other languages. Maybe it was somewhere on Ron Garrett's site? IIRC, Lisp programs were developed consistently more quickly than C/C++/Java/SmallTalk, and were normally faster than all but the very fastest C/C++ programs — but I could misremember. I remember that it had some interesting-looking charts.