- First name: 
Barry 
  
- Last name: 
Wilkes 
  
- Email address: 
REMOVED
  
- Phone number(s): 
+44 20 7923 0162 
  
- Postal code: 
N16 0NH 
  
- City: 
London 
  
- State or province: 
N/A 
  
- Country: 
United Kingdom 
  
- Organization(s) you work for or study at 
  (please supply the name and city for each organization): 
Lehman Brothers (Europe), London. 
  
- Fields of interest 
  (e.g. computer linguistics, numerical analysis, business software, 
   medicine, bioinformatics): 
Professionaly, quantitative methods in finance and their implementation 
in software.  General business software. 
  
- 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. 
I did a port some time ago of CLX to Lispworks for Windows and 
Linux. 
  
- Lisp variants you have used (e.g. Common Lisp, Scheme, Dylan): 
Common Lisp, Scheme. 
  
- Lisp variants you're currently using or intend to use in the 
  near future: 
Common Lisp, Scheme. 
  
- Lisp implementations you have used 
  (e.g. CMUCL, Lispworks, Allegro Common Lisp): 
Lispworks, CMUCL, Clisp, scsh. 
  
- Lisp implementations you're currently using or intend to use 
  in the near future: 
Lispworks, Clisp. 
  
- Computer platforms on which you're using or deploying Lisp: 
Windows XP, Solaris, Linux. 
  
- Number of years of experience with Lisp: 
6 Years. 
  
- Experience with other programming languages (please supply the 
  number of years and the name of the language): 
C, C++, Perl, Java, SQL, TCL, VBA.  I have used all of these 
professionaly at some time or another.  These days, I program mostly 
in C++, VBA, SQL and ocasionally, Java.  Difficult to say really how 
long in each. 
  
  
- Total number of years of programming experience: 
I have been programming as part of my job for 14 Years. 
  
- Do you use Lisp: 
  - at work (if so, how much) 
Not really.  Just the ocasional hack in Clisp or scsh. 
  
  - for study (if so, how much) 
  - as a hobby (if so, how much) 
All of my programming outside of work is done in Lisp. 
  
- Are you using Lisp as much as you would like to? 
  If not, why not? 
That's a difficult one.  I have no doubt that if there was a truly 
compelling reason to use Lisp at work, I could. 
  
- Do you see any obstacles to further Lisp growth (if so, what 
  is the biggest obstacle in your opinion)? 
  
- Would you be interested in a Lisp-related job or contract work? 
As far as I'm concerned, I'm interested in interesting problems, 
using any language. 
  
- Is your organization interested in hiring Lisp programmers? 
Not specifically. 
  
- Are you currently participating in Lisp-related meetings? 
  If so, where and how often? 
I attend the Uk-lispers meetings about once a month.  
See http://www.lisp.org/alu/res-local-eu#london.  
I also occasionly attend the Scheme-UK meetings, see 
http://schematics.sourceforge.net/scheme-london/.