- First name: Daniel 
  
- Last name: Barlow 
  
- Email address: REMOVED
  
- Home page: http://ww.telent.net/diary/ 
  
- Phone number(s): +44 7906 829031 
  
- Postal code: E11 
  
- City: London 
  
- Country: UK 
  
- Organization(s) you work for or study at 
  (please supply the name and city for each organization): 
  
clara.net, London. 
  
  
- Fields of interest 
  (e.g. computer linguistics, numerical analysis, business software, 
  medicine, bioinformatics): 
  
"Habitable software": scriptable environments that cater for so-called 
power users 
  
Low-level compiler/runtime grunge (GC, threading, Unix hackery, etc) 
  
  
- Have you written any Lisp-related papers? If so, please supply 
  bibliographical references (and URL's, if possible). 
  
Nothing especially worthy 
  
  
- Have you developed or participated in the development of any 
  Lisp-related programs or libraries? If so, please supply a URL, 
  if possible. 
  
SBCL 
araneida 
cliki (and the ALU wiki, which I appear to still be hosting) 
asdf, asdf-install 
contributions to CLX, McCLIM, SLIME 
other smaller hacks 
  
http://www.cliki.net/Daniel%20Barlow has links to all this stuff. 
  
- Lisp variants you have used (e.g. Common Lisp, Scheme, Dylan): 
  
Common Lisp, elisp, Scheme (though not much) 
  
- Lisp variants you're currently using or intend to use in the 
  near future: 
  
Common Lisp, elisp (though not for any longer than I have to) 
  
- Lisp implementations you have used 
  (e.g. CMUCL, Lispworks, Allegro Common Lisp): 
  
SBCL, CMUCL, CLISP, others occasionally for portability testing 
  
- Lisp implementations you're currently using or intend to use 
  in the near future: 
  
SBCL, CMUCL 
  
- Computer platforms on which you're using or deploying Lisp: 
  
Primarily Linux (x86, PPC, Alpha) 
  
- Number of years of experience with Lisp: 
  
5-6, I think 
  
- 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) 
  
Too much 
  
  
- Are you using Lisp as much as you would like to? 
  If not, why not? 
  
It's a hard enough task introducing Perl in the workplace here; Lisp 
would just be too much of a stretch 
  
- Do you see any obstacles to further Lisp growth (if so, what 
  is the biggest obstacle in your opinion)? 
  
The tendency of some people to obsess about Lisp's lack of success 
instead of doing anything useful to promote it 
  
- Would you be interested in a Lisp-related job or contract work? 
  
Yes 
  
- Is your organization interested in hiring Lisp programmers? 
  
No 
  
- Are you currently participating in Lisp-related meetings? 
  If so, where and how often? 
  If not, would you be interested in such meetings? 
  
Once or twice a month: 
 * The uk-lispers drinking society (http://alu.cliki.net/London) 
 * scheme-uk (http://schematics.sourceforge.net/scheme-uk/)