"How the strengths of Lisp-family languages facilitate building complex and flexible bioinformatics applications" by Bohdan B Khomtchouk, Edmund Weitz, Peter D Karp, and Claes Wahlestedt
Damn, interesting read. Some fun facts from the article: Development times for the Lisp programs ranged from 2 to 8.5 h, compared with 2 to 25 h for C/C ++ and 4 to 63 h for Java (programmer experience