- First name:
  Aleksandr
 
- Last name:
  Skobelev
 
- Email address:
  REMOVED
 
- Phone number(s):
  7 (812) 5401931
 
- Postal code:
  195221 (does it help? :)
 
- City:
  Saint-Petersburg
 
- State or province:
  --
 
- Country:
  Russia
 
- Organization(s) you work for or study at
 (please supply the name and city for each organization):
  "Analize Design Development" (Saint-Petersburg)
 
- Fields of interest
 (e.g. computer linguistics, numerical analysis, business software,
 medicine, bioinformatics):
  Business software, TCP/IP network programming, digital signal processing 
 
- Have you written any Lisp-related papers? If so, please supply
 bibliographical references (and URL's, if possible).
  No, i haven't (only translated Mark Battiany's paper he wrote for ILC
  into Russian)
 
- Have you developed or participated in the development of any
 Lisp-related programs or libraries? If so, please supply a URL,
 if possible.
  No, I haven't (if not count some little programs/utilities for my own needs)
 
- Lisp variants you have used (e.g. Common Lisp, Scheme, Dylan):
  Common Lisp 
 
- Lisp variants you're currently using or intend to use in the
 near future:
  Common Lisp 
 
- Lisp implementations you have used
 (e.g. CMUCL, Lispworks, Allegro Common Lisp):
  CMUCL
 
- Lisp implementations you're currently using or intend to use
 in the near future:
  SBCL, CMUCL, LispWorks (I hope)
 
- Computer platforms on which you're using or deploying Lisp:
  Linux, Mac OS X
 
- Number of years of experience with Lisp:
  total volume is 3 (if look at the time, when I first posted in c.l.l) 
  but active tim is much lesser (something about 1 year?)  
 
- Experience with other programming languages (please supply the
 number of years and the name of the language):
  1 year  - Objective-C
  10 years - C/C++ 
  ~1 year  - Fort, mini Prolog, MatLab, Fortran 
 
- Total number of years of programming experience:
  ~11 years
 
- Do you use Lisp:
 - at work (if so, how much) 
   yes i do, but not very much still, mainly for writing small
   utilities for generating HTML, some functions that allow me to
   generate some datas, that i use in my programs.
 
 - as a hobby (if so, how much)
   yes I do, but again, much lesser than I'd wished, espesially for last
   year, after I found a new job that has got all my time. 
 
- Are you using Lisp as much as you would like to?
 If not, why not?
  Not, I'm not. I almost have no free time, and I still haven't had the
  chance to use it actively in some project on my work.
 
- Do you see any obstacles to further Lisp growth (if so, what
 is the biggest obstacle in your opinion)?
 
  I don't see any principial obstacles, but ever in a best case, I think,
  it can take about 5 years, before Lisp grows enough to not intimidate
  people with his name. 
  I still think that one of the main reason that slows down Lisp growth is
  that there is not single multiplatform realisation of Lisp with a lot of
  libraries, included libraries for GUI and threads. I don't tell it
  is BAD (in general sence). I think it is bad for the lisp popularity. 
 
 
- Would you be interested in a Lisp-related job or contract work?
  Probably, yes, I would.
 
- Is your organization interested in hiring Lisp programmers?
  No, it isn't. :(
 
- Are you currently participating in Lisp-related meetings?
 If so, where and how often?
 If not, would you be interested in such meetings?
 
  No, I'm not. I'm not sure I would. I'd be interested if it had some
  practical result. But I'm from Russia, and Lisp is not a very popular
  here.
 
- Do you know any other Lispers who might be willing to fill in
 this questionnaire (please supply their names and email-addresses
 if you do)?
 
  I don't know any other Lispers around. 
 
 
- Do you know people who may be interested in learning Lisp
 (please supply their names and email-addresses if you do)?
 
  I have not found any real person still. A lot of people happy with
  Perl/Java/C++ running around me, and just don't want to hear anything
  about that misterious Lisp. It looks like I should to do something
  exrtaordinary to attract their attention.