- First name: André 
  
- Last name: Fatton 
  
- Email address: REMOVED
  
- Phone number(s): 
  
- Postal code: 
  
- City: Basel 
  
- State or province: 
  
- Country: Switzerland 
  
- Organization(s) you work for or study at 
  (please supply the name and city for each organization): 
  I work for and study at Basel University. 
  
- Fields of interest 
  (e.g. computer linguistics, numerical analysis, business software, 
   medicine, bioinformatics): 
computer music, databases, OS X application programming, web 
applications, pattern analysis, XML, protocols (z3950), searching, 
visualization 
  
- Have you written any Lisp-related papers? If so, please supply 
  bibliographical references (and URL's, if possible). 
  No. 
  
- Have you developed or participated in the development of any 
  Lisp-related programs or libraries? If so, please supply a URL, 
  if possible. 
Yes. Not available. 
  
- Lisp variants you have used (e.g. Common Lisp, Scheme, Dylan): 
Common Lisp, CLOS. 
  
- Lisp variants you're currently using or intend to use in the 
  near future: 
Common Lisp, CLOS 
  
- Lisp implementations you have used 
  (e.g. CMUCL, Lispworks, Allegro Common Lisp): 
  MCL, LispWorks 
  
- Lisp implementations you're currently using or intend to use 
  in the near future: 
  MCL, LispWorks, OpenMCL, open to others 
  
- Computer platforms on which you're using or deploying Lisp: 
Unix (mostly OS X) 
  
- Number of years of experience with Lisp: 
8 (varying levels of intensity, of course) 
  
- Experience with other programming languages (please supply the 
  number of years and the name of the language): 
  
  python: 6 
  Objective C: 3 
  php: 2 
  Java (Cocoon, Webobjects): dont want to use it anymore. 
  
  Lisp was the first programming language I learned. 
  
- Total number of years of programming experience: 
  
e la somma que fa il totale.. 
  
- Do you use Lisp: 
  - at work (if so, how much) 
  - for study (if so, how much) 
  - as a hobby (if so, how much) 
work: no at the moment. 
study, hobby: yes. 
  
- Are you using Lisp as much as you would like to? 
  If not, why not? 
  No. 
  a) not easily usable for database and web database development. 
  b) Good Lisp implementations (Lispworks enterprise, ACL) are very expensive. 
  c) no local Lisp projects. 
  
- Do you see any obstacles to further Lisp growth (if so, what 
  is the biggest obstacle in your opinion)? 
  Hm, I do not have any overview of the market. Standard Libraries 
and even more success stories? 
  
- Would you be interested in a Lisp-related job or contract work? 
Yes, why  not. 
  
- Is your organization interested in hiring Lisp programmers? 
No. 
  
- Are you currently participating in Lisp-related meetings? 
  If so, where and how often? 
  If not, would you be interested in such meetings? 
No. Interested (Switzerland, near France, near Germany)