> - First name: Alexander > - Last name: Schreiber > - Email address: REMOVED > - Phone number(s): > > - Postal code: 99092 > - City: Erfurt > - State or province: Thuringia > - Country: Germany > - Organization(s) you work for or study at > (please supply the name and city for each organization): Chemnitz University of Technology, State criminal police agency of Thuringia > - Fields of interest > (e.g. computer linguistics, numerical analysis, business software, > medicine, bioinformatics): web application, databases, networks, UNIX system administration > - Have you written any Lisp-related papers? If so, please supply > bibliographical references (and URL's, if possible). > > - Have you developed or participated in the development of any > Lisp-related programs or libraries? If so, please supply a URL, > if possible. The only one published so far is the lisp-cgi-utils library for writing CGI-based web applications in Common Lisp: http://www.thangorodrim.de/software/lisp-cgi-utils/index.html > - 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: > > - Lisp implementations you have used > (e.g. CMUCL, Lispworks, Allegro Common Lisp): clisp, sbcl, cmucl, gcl > - Lisp implementations you're currently using or intend to use > in the near future: clisp currently, sbcl eventually > - Computer platforms on which you're using or deploying Lisp: x86 based Linux systems, planning on IA64 Linux/HP-UX and PA-RISC/HP-UX > - Number of years of experience with Lisp: 2 > - Experience with other programming languages (please supply the > number of years and the name of the language): Perl: 7 years, UNIX shell: 8 years, PHP: 3 years, Pascal: 12 years, C: 8 years > - Total number of years of programming experience: 12 years > - Do you use Lisp: > - at work (if so, how much) Only in so far as I use a web application I've written in Lisp > - for study (if so, how much) Finished studying, got the CS diploma to prove it ;-) > - as a hobby (if so, how much) Programming web applications, working on my lisp-fu whenever there is time > - Are you using Lisp as much as you would like to? > If not, why not? No demand to use Lisp. > - Do you see any obstacles to further Lisp growth (if so, what > is the biggest obstacle in your opinion)? prejudices about Lisp being - slow, - a dead language ("Nobody I know uses this!"), - really hard to understand ("All those parentheses and besides, it doesn't look like C at all!"). - not useful for real world stuff ("Only good for old AI stuff!") > - Would you be interested in a Lisp-related job or contract work? yes > - Is your organization interested in hiring Lisp programmers? unfortunately, no > - Are you currently participating in Lisp-related meetings? no > If so, where and how often? > If not, would you be interested in such meetings? yes