- First name: Brent 
  
- Last name: Fulgham 
  
- Email address: REMOVED
  
- Phone number(s): 
  
- Postal code: 93003 
  
- City: Ventura 
  
- State or province: CA 
  
- Country: United States 
  
- Organization(s) you work for or study at 
  (please supply the name and city for each organization): 
  
XP Systems 
Moorpark, California 
  
- Fields of interest 
  (e.g. computer linguistics, numerical analysis, business software, 
  medicine, bioinformatics): 
  
Financial systems, graphics 
  
- 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. 
  
* I'm a member of the schematics team (http://schematics.sourceforge.net), 
where we have written a cookbook for Scheme. 
* I work on the Gwydion Dylan project: 
http://www.gwydiondylan.org 
* I've included many Scheme and Lisp (and Dylan) 
implementations in the "Great Computer Language 
Shootout" (http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/) 
  
- Lisp variants you have used (e.g. Common Lisp, Scheme, Dylan): 
Scheme and Dylan.  I'm learning 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): 
CMUCL and SBCL 
Gwydion Dylan 
Generally I use PLT Scheme. 
  
- Lisp implementations you're currently using or intend to use 
  in the near future: 
SBCL, PLT Scheme, Dylan 
  
- Computer platforms on which you're using or deploying Lisp: 
Linux 
  
- Number of years of experience with Lisp: 
2 
  
- Experience with other programming languages (please supply the 
  number of years and the name of the language): 
C++ - 7 Years 
Java - 5 Years 
C# - 2 Years 
Perl - 7 Years 
Python - 2 Years 
Scheme - 2 Years 
Common Lisp - A few months 
  
- Total number of years of programming experience: 
10 Years 
  
- Do you use Lisp: 
  - at work (if so, how much) 
No 
  - for study (if so, how much) 
Yes -- a few hours a week. 
  - as a hobby (if so, how much) 
Yes (this is my "study") 
  
- Are you using Lisp as much as you would like to? 
  If not, why not?  
No.  My employers only want to use C#. 
  
- Do you see any obstacles to further Lisp growth (if so, what 
  is the biggest obstacle in your opinion)? 
  1.  The perception that they can't hire people to maintain Lisp. 
  2.  Very effective Advertising claiming C# (and similar languages) 
provide lower development costs and maintenance effort. 
  
- Would you be interested in a Lisp-related job or 
contract work?  
Of course! 
  
  
- Is your organization interested in hiring Lisp programmers? No. 
  
- Are you currently participating in Lisp-related meetings? 
No. 
  If so, where and how often? 
  If not, would you be interested in such meetings? 
Yes, if there was such a thing near my area.