> - First name: 
  
Damien 
  
> - Last name: 
  
Diederen 
  
> - Email address: 
  
REMOVED
  
> - Home page: 
  
http://users.swing.be/diederen/ 
  
> - Phone number(s): 
  
+32 4 362 65 28 
  
> - Postal code: 
  
4610 
  
> - City: 
  
Liège 
  
> - State or province: 
  
Liège 
  
> - Country: 
  
Belgium 
  
> - Organization(s) you work for or study at 
>   (please supply the name and city for each organization): 
  
Ionic Software S.A., Liège, Belgium 
  
> - Fields of interest 
>   (e.g. computer linguistics, numerical analysis, business software, 
>   medicine, bioinformatics): 
  
* Computer graphics, including typography; 
  
* Compilation & optimization techniques; 
  
* "Enterprise" systems. 
  
> - 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. 
  
Tiny patches to: 
  
* xmls: http://common-lisp.net/project/xmls/ 
  
* lgtk: http://common-lisp.net/project/lgtk/ 
  
* Helmut Heller's CMUCL callbacks (SBCL port): 
  http://users.swing.be/diederen/tarballs/lisp/callback-sbcl.lisp 
  
> - Lisp variants you have used (e.g. Common Lisp, Scheme, Dylan): 
  
Common Lisp, Emacs Lisp, Scheme 
  
> - Lisp variants you're currently using or intend to use in the 
>   near future: 
  
Common Lisp, Emacs Lisp 
  
> - Lisp implementations you have used 
>   (e.g. CMUCL, Lispworks, Allegro Common Lisp): 
  
CLISP, SBCL, CMUCL, ECL, Armed Bear CL 
  
> - Lisp implementations you're currently using or intend to use 
>   in the near future: 
  
SBCL 
  
> - Computer platforms on which you're using or deploying Lisp: 
  
Debian GNU/Linux, x86. 
  
> - Number of years of experience with Lisp: 
  
1 
  
> - Experience with other programming languages (please supply the 
>   number of years and the name of the language): 
  
* Turbo Pascal, 2 years; 
* C, 6 years; 
* C++, 3 years; 
* Perl, 1 year; 
* Java, 3 years. 
  
> - Total number of years of programming experience: 
  
8 
  
> - Do you use Lisp: 
>   - at work (if so, how much) 
  
No. 
  
>   - for study (if so, how much) 
  
No. 
  
>   - as a hobby (if so, how much) 
  
As much as I can, which unfortunately boils down to a couple hours a 
week. 
  
> - Are you using Lisp as much as you would like to? 
>   If not, why not? 
  
Far from it: I have not crossed an interesting, lisp-related day job 
opportunity yet. 
  
> - Do you see any obstacles to further Lisp growth (if so, what 
>   is the biggest obstacle in your opinion)? 
  
Not really: the growing number of libraries and utilities is slowly 
erasing the "for educational use only" label that has been plaguing 
lisp since AI winter :) 
  
> - Would you be interested in a Lisp-related job or contract work? 
  
Yes, probably. 
  
> - Is your organization interested in hiring Lisp programmers? 
  
No (it is a pure Java shop).