You have to understand how godawful of a rat's nest COM was, and the reams of technical gobbledygook that Don Box churned out while pushing it (and then the same thing all over again with XML and SOAP), to fully appreciate the irony of his discovering the first thing about Lisp in 2005.

Edit: Also, a telltale question: do you think he ever actually built anything with Lisp or Scheme? I'll bet he went straight to "improving" on it.

Edit 2: moved irrelevant bit to a different comment.