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Regardless of what you think of the quality. Referring to Knuth as "some random guy" is a clear indication that one has no interest in the field whatsoever. It should be obvious that people with a clear interest in everything that goes on in the field have a higher change to think outside of the box, and come up with a creative solution.
Lisp programmers are better programmers, not because of Lisp, but because they have learned a langauge that hardly has any practical value.
Industry has caught on to that and is actively recruiting programmers with Python/Ruby skills, to deploy them on Java projects, just because they chose to learn /more/ then just the stuff they were forced to learn on university.