- First name: 
  
  Chris 
  
- Last name: 
  
  Dean 
  
- Email address: 
  
  REMOVED
  
- Home page: 
  
- Phone number(s): 
  
- Postal code: 
  
- City: 
  
  Redwood City 
  
- Country: 
  
  CA 
  
- Organization(s) you work for or study at 
  (please supply the name and city for each organization): 
  
  Merced Systems, Redwood City, CA 
  
- Fields of interest 
  (e.g. computer linguistics, numerical analysis, business software, 
  medicine, bioinformatics): 
  
  Application development, Machine learning, data mining 
  
- 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 work with the Kawa Scheme compiler http://www.gnu.org/software/kawa/ 
  
- Lisp variants you have used (e.g. Common Lisp, Scheme, Dylan): 
  
  Mostly Scheme. 
  
- Lisp variants you're currently using or intend to use in the 
  near future: 
  
  Scheme.  
  
- Lisp implementations you have used 
  (e.g. CMUCL, Lispworks, Allegro Common Lisp): 
  
  ACL, Kawa Scheme (various Schemes) 
  
- Lisp implementations you're currently using or intend to use 
  in the near future: 
  
  Kawa Scheme 
  
- Computer platforms on which you're using or deploying Lisp: 
  
  Linux, Windows, Solaris 
  
- Number of years of experience with Lisp: 
  
  12? 
  
- Do you use Lisp: 
  - at work (if so, how much)  
yes, as the primary platform 
  - for study (if so, how much) 
  - as a hobby (if so, how much) 
  
- Are you using Lisp as much as you would like to? yes 
  If not, why not? 
  
- Do you see any obstacles to further Lisp growth (if so, what 
  is the biggest obstacle in your opinion)? 
  
  Fragmentation of the larger community 
  
- Would you be interested in a Lisp-related job or contract work? 
  
  yes. 
  
- Is your organization interested in hiring Lisp programmers? 
  
  yes (Scheme programmers) 
  
- Are you currently participating in Lisp-related meetings? 
yes 
  If so, where and how often? 
In the SF bay 
  If not, would you be interested in such meetings?