- First name: Andrew
 
- Last name: Lawson
 
- E-mail address: REMOVED
 
- Phone number(s): 
 
- Postal code:
 
- City: Madrid
 
- State or province: Madrid
 
- Country: Spain
 
- Organization(s) you work for or study at
 (please supply the name and city for each organization):
 
Kerridge Computer Company, Madrid
 
- Fields of interest
 (e.g. computer linguistics, numerical analysis, business software,
  medicine, bioinformatics):
 
Nothing specific, most of my non-work related programming is either my website
or little tools to help organise myself, work is in the field of software
for the automotive industry.
 
- 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.
 
Mainly personal productivity tools for work, I've had my life-and-work-organiser
in alpha for going on 2 years and now have finally started attacking it with Lisp. The 
idea being to bring together all my company resources in 1 prog together with time
management tools, probably optimistic :). My website also runs on Lisp
 
- 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):
 
Lispworks (windows), CMUCL
 
- Lisp implementations you're currently using or intend to use
 in the near future:
 
Lispworks (windows), CMUCL, SBCL (Once I get my website prerequisites running)
 
- Computer platforms on which you're using or deploying Lisp:
 
Windows, Linux
 
- Number of years of experience with Lisp:
 
0.5
 
- Experience with other programming languages (please supply the
 number of years and the name of the language):
 
KCML 3
Perl 4
Python 4
Delphi 2
C/C++ 4
Smalltalk 1
 
- Total number of years of programming experience:
 
- Do you use Lisp:
 - at work (if so, how much)
 
Only bugfixes to personal tools I use at work
 
 - for study (if so, how much)
 - as a hobby (if so, how much)
 
All my lisp development, several times a week, I dabble in smalltalk too though.
 
- Are you using Lisp as much as you would like to?
 If not, why not?
 
No, because I can't use it at work, we have our own proprietary language.
 
- Do you see any obstacles to further Lisp growth (if so, what
 is the biggest obstacle in your opinion)?
 
Given that most beginners want to create small, standalone gui apps I'd say the
cost in buying the tools necessary. I bought Lispworks because it was worth it to 
me but I'm probably not the median case. For web development however, Lisp
probably offers all the necessary tools and for free, a little marketing might
go a long way.
 
- Would you be interested in a Lisp-related job or contract work?
 
Eventally, yes, but now I don't think i have the experience, this will
change hopefully.
 
- 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, but I have no idea of the lisp-programmer-density on the iberian peninsula.