- First name: David
 
- Last name: Douthitt
 
- Email address: REMOVED
 
- City: Beloit
 
- State or province: Wisconsin
 
- Country: USA
 
- Organization(s) you work for or study at
CUNA & Affiliates, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
 
- Fields of interest
Networking, System Administration, Security
 
- 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.
 
No.
 
- Lisp variants you have used (e.g. Common Lisp, Scheme, Dylan):
 
Common Lisp, Scheme, Apple II PLISP
 
- Lisp variants you're currently using or intend to use in the
  near future:
 
Common Lisp (SBCL in particular)
 
- Lisp implementations you have used
  (e.g. CMUCL, Lispworks, Allegro Common Lisp):
 
Apple II PLISP, CLISP, OpenMCL, GNU CL, SBCL
 
- Computer platforms on which you're using or deploying Lisp:
 
Linux, MacOS X
 
- Number of years of experience with Lisp:
 
Years trying to learn: 20.  Months in active use?  1?
 
- Experience with other programming languages (please supply the
  number of years and the name of the language):
 
FORTH: 20
Pascal: 20
BASIC: 20
C: 10 (not Windows)
C++: 1
SNOBOL: 1-2
6502/65816 Assembly: 5
IBM BAL: 2
RPG IV: 1
COBOL: 5
FORTRAN: 2
APL: .5
 
- Total number of years of programming experience:
 
20-25
 
- Do you use Lisp:
  - at work (if so, how much) - Yes. A little....
  - for study (if so, how much) - No.
  - as a hobby (if so, how much) - Yes. Learning...
 
- Are you using Lisp as much as you would like to?
  If not, why not?
 
No. Lack of knowledge.
 
- Do you see any obstacles to further Lisp growth (if so, what
  is the biggest obstacle in your opinion)?
 
Lack of documentation on how to do Real Work (file input/output,
text scanning, network sockets, operating system calls, foreign
library calls, etc.).  With providence, perhaps the Common Lisp
Cookbook will solve these problems.
 
- 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?
 
No, not participating.
Yes! Would be interested.  LispChicago seems to have vanished....
 
- Do you know people who may be interested in learning Lisp
  (please supply their names and email-addresses if you do)?
 
Me ;-)