> but I find it's easier to write readable Java code than it is to write readable Lisp.

I think that depends a bit on the style. Pattern-heavy, "clean" Java is a mess of boilerplate that makes it very hard to find where things actually happen, let alone get an"idea at a glance" of what the code is about. Concise code might be harder to get started with, but in the end tends to be easier (for me, at least) to grok.

In any case, the main difference here, beyond the languages, is Norvig being a genius.