- First name: Bob 
  
- Last name: Bechtel 
  
- Email address: REMOVED
  
- Phone number(s): 
  
- Postal code: 75081 
  
- City: Richardson 
  
- State or province: Texas 
  
- Country: USA 
  
- Organization(s) you work for or study at 
  (please supply the name and city for each organization): 
  
Eclectic Computing Concepts, McKinney, TX, USA (primary employment) 
GB Software LLC, Corona del Mar, CA, USA (secondary employment) 
  
- Fields of interest 
  (e.g. computer linguistics, numerical analysis, business software, 
   medicine, bioinformatics): 
  
natural language, cognitive modeling 
  
- 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. 
  
Several applications written in Lisp.  The only one that is still in 
existence is the Psychiatric Content Analysis and Diagnosis system 
(PCAD) - see http://www.gb-software.com. 
  
- Lisp variants you have used (e.g. Common Lisp, Scheme, Dylan): 
  
Lisp 1.6 (Stanford Lisp) 
UCI Lisp 
Interlisp 
NIL 
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): 
  
Golden Hill Common Lisp 
Star Sapphire Common Lisp 
Allegro Common Lisp 
LispWorks 
CMUCL 
clisp 
Corman Common Lisp 
  
- Lisp implementations you're currently using or intend to use 
  in the near future: 
  
Allegro Common Lisp 
LispWorks 
compatibility checking with CMUCL and clisp 
  
- Computer platforms on which you're using or deploying Lisp: 
  
PC/Windows 
some of the PCAD code has been deployed under Linux using CMUCL 
  
- Number of years of experience with Lisp: 30 
  
- Experience with other programming languages (please supply the 
  number of years and the name of the language): 
  
Prolog - 20 years 
Basic - 33 years 
Fortran - 33 years 
C - 21 years 
  
- Total number of years of programming experience: 33 
  
- Do you use Lisp: 
  - at work (if so, how much) 
At ECC occasionally, working with ACT/R (cognitive modeling) 
at GB Software, exclusively, working on PCAD 
  - for study (if so, how much) 
Can't really separate from work 
  - as a hobby (if so, how much) 
Almost all programming done in Lisp 
  
- Are you using Lisp as much as you would like to? 
Hmm. I don't use much else, but I'd like to do more. 
  If not, why not? 
There's not a lot of demand in my primary employment. 
  
- Do you see any obstacles to further Lisp growth (if so, what 
  is the biggest obstacle in your opinion)? 
  
Java, .Net, and the insistence of decision-makers on specific 
implementation languages. 
  
- Would you be interested in a Lisp-related job or contract work? 
  
Sure. I'm not primarily a programmer, however. 
  
- Is your organization interested in hiring Lisp programmers? 
  
Nope. 
  
- Are you currently participating in Lisp-related meetings? 
No. 
  If so, where and how often? 
  If not, would you be interested in such meetings? 
I'd probably go to a local Lisp Users' group.