- First name:  Dan 
  
- Last name:  Corkill 
  
- Email address:  REMOVED
  
- Home page:  http://www.cs.umass.edu/~corkill 
  
- Phone number(s):  413 545-0675 
  
- Postal code:  01003 
  
- City:  Amherst, MA 
  
- Country:  U.S.A. 
  
- Organization(s) you work for or study at 
 (please supply the name and city for each organization): 
  
University of Massachusetts Amherst 
BBTech (Amherst, MA) 
  
  
- Fields of interest 
 (e.g. computer linguistics, numerical analysis, business software, 
  medicine, bioinformatics): 
  
Collaborating-software systems (blackboard and multi-agent systems), 
decision-support for managing complex, dynamic (business) processes, 
multi-agent organizations. 
  
  
  
- Have you written any Lisp-related papers? If so, please supply 
 bibliographical references (and URL's, if possible). 
  
  
@manual{Corkill80:CLisp, 
  Title =     {{CL}isp Reference Manual}, 
  Author =    {Daniel D. Corkill}, 
  Address =    {Department of Computer and Information Science, 
          University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts}, 
  Year =     1980, 
  Note =     {(Periodically revised through 1984.)} 
} 
  
  
@techreport{Murray88:Common, 
  Author =    {Kelly E. Murray and Daniel D. Corkill}, 
  Title =     {{C}ommon {L}isp Object Representation Strategies: 
          {T}he {UM}ass {P}arallel {C}ommon {L}isp system}, 
  Number =    {88-35}, 
  Institution =  UmassCOINS, 
  Address =    UmassAddr, 
  Month =     Apr, 
  Year =     1988 
} 
    
  
  
- Have you developed or participated in the development of any 
 Lisp-related programs or libraries? If so, please supply a URL, 
 if possible. 
  
- Lisp variants you have used (e.g. Common Lisp, Scheme, Dylan): 
  
- 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): 
  
ALisp (UMass dialect for CDC machines), CLisp (not *the* CLisp -AKA 
CoinsLisp, a UMass dialect 
written in Macro32 for Vax), Explorer, Symbolics, VaxLisp, Lucid, 
Allegro, Lispworks, Coins Parallel 
Common Lisp, TopCL, Procyon, MCL, CMUCL, SBCL, Emacs Lisp 
  
  
- Lisp implementations you're currently using or intend to use 
 in the near future: 
  
Allegro, Lispworks, CMUCL, SBCL, Emacs Lisp (and if I have 
access to a Mac, MCL & OpenMCL) 
  
  
- Computer platforms on which you're using or deploying Lisp: 
  
Primarly Linux. 
  
  
- Number of years of experience with Lisp:  28 
  
- Do you use Lisp: 
 - at work (if so, how much)  
daily 
 - for study (if so, how much) no 
 - as a hobby (if so, how much)
no (unless you view work as a hobby) 
  
- Are you using Lisp as much as you would like to?  
no 
 If not, why not?  
not enough time for programming! 
  
- Do you see any obstacles to further Lisp growth (if so, what 
 is the biggest obstacle in your opinion)? 
  
Biggest obstacle is lack of exposure/training in schools... perpetuates 
myths, paren-noia, etc.  (Personally, I'm scared of curley braces & 
semi-colons....) 
  
- Would you be interested in a Lisp-related job or contract work? 
  
Yes, and if I don't have the time, I know other quality Lisp people...! 
  
- Is your organization interested in hiring Lisp programmers? 
  
No, but the GBBopen Project (http://GBBopen.org) is always looking for 
Lisp volunteers! 
  
  
- Are you currently participating in Lisp-related meetings?  
No 
 If so, where and how often? 
 If not, would you be interested in such meetings?  
Possibly.