- First name:
 
Alexandru-Dan
 
- Last name:
 
Corlan
 
- Email address:
 
the address from which I am sending you this message
please do not display on the web
 
- Web page:
 
http://dan.corlan.net [there is a form to contact me in the page]
 
- Phone number(s):
 
REMOVED
 
- Postal code:
 
- City:
 
Bucharest
 
- State or province:
 
- Country:
 
Romania
 
- Organization(s) you work for or study at
  (please supply the name and city for each organization):
 
Academy of Medical Science, University Hospital of Bucharest, Romania
 
- Fields of interest
  (e.g. computer linguistics, numerical analysis, business software,
   medicine, bioinformatics):
 
internal medicine, statistics, clinical models, electrocardiology
 
- Have you written any Lisp-related papers? If so, please supply
  bibliographical references (and URL's, if possible).
 
No. Just a couple of benchmarks at
http://dan.corlan.net/bench.html
 
- Have you developed or participated in the development of any
  Lisp-related programs or libraries? If so, please supply a URL,
  if possible.
 
I wrote a native lisp compiler for homemade MC68000 computer [designed
by my brother, Radu] in the mid eighties. Only used it myself.
A vestige of that system is ilfive (http://dan.corlan.net/software/ilfive.html)
a C library of lisp objects.
 
Later I reimplemented it in Ada (same URL) under the name niliada.
This version supports multitasking applications and has an incremental
garbage collector. You still have to write your own mark-and-sweep collector
if you use cyclical structures.
 
A free cmucl application I wrote recently is avsomat
(http://astro.corlan.net/avsomat).
 
- Lisp variants you have used (e.g. Common Lisp, Scheme, Dylan):
 
Common Lisp, R
 
- Lisp variants you're currently using or intend to use in the
  near future:
 
Common Lisp, R (which is a scheme + S-language parser + 
math/statistical/graphics library).
 
- 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:
 
CMUCL
 
- Computer platforms on which you're using or deploying Lisp:
 
Linux
 
- Number of years of experience with Lisp:
 
20
 
- Experience with other programming languages (please supply the
  number of years and the name of the language):
 
Assembly: 25, Basic: 3 (23 years ago ;)), C: 22, TeX: 15, Ada: 10, S/R: 6
 
- Total number of years of programming experience:
 
25
 
- Do you use Lisp:
  - at work (if so, how much)
 
25%
 
  - for study (if so, how much)
 
50%
 
  - as a hobby (if so, how much)
 
50%
 
- Are you using Lisp as much as you would like to?
 
Not quite.
 
  If not, why not?
 
People who can, ask me to use C instead :(
 
Unstandardised support for multithreading makes
me use Ada for some applications.
 
- Do you see any obstacles to further Lisp growth (if so, what
  is the biggest obstacle in your opinion)?
 
No.
 
- Would you be interested in a Lisp-related job or contract work?
 
Yes.
 
- Is your organization interested in hiring Lisp programmers?
 
Might be.
 
- Are you currently participating in Lisp-related meetings?
 
No.
 
  If so, where and how often?
  If not, would you be interested in such meetings?
 
Maybe, if they happen in Bucharest.
 
- 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)?
 
No.
 
- Do you know people who may be interested in learning Lisp
  (please supply their names and email-addresses if you do)?
 
No.