- First name: David 
  
- Last name: Young 
  
- Email address: REMOVED
  
- Home page: 
  
- Phone number(s): 
  
- Postal code: 
  
- City: Raleigh, NC 
  
- Country: USA 
  
- Organization(s) you work for or study at 
  (please supply the name and city for each organization): 
  
< Company name witheld > 
  
- Fields of interest 
  (e.g. computer linguistics, numerical analysis, business software, 
  medicine, bioinformatics): 
  
Expert 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. 
  
LISA: http://lisa.sf.net 
  
- Lisp variants you have used (e.g. Common Lisp, Scheme, Dylan): 
  
Common Lisp 
  
- Lisp variants you're currently using or intend to use in the 
  near future: 
  
Common Lisp 
  
- Lisp implementations you have used 
  (e.g. CMUCL, Lispworks, Allegro Common Lisp): 
  
Lispworks (current development platform); Allegro; CMUCL; Symbolics Common Lisp. 
  
- Lisp implementations you're currently using or intend to use 
  in the near future: 
  
n/a 
  
- Computer platforms on which you're using or deploying Lisp: 
  
Windows 2000; Linux. 
  
- Number of years of experience with Lisp: 
  
6 
  
- Do you use Lisp: 
  - at work (if so, how much) 
  - for study (if so, how much) 
  - as a hobby (if so, how much) 
  
At work, full-time. 
  
- Are you using Lisp as much as you would like to? 
  If not, why not? 
  
Yes. 
  
- Do you see any obstacles to further Lisp growth (if so, what 
  is the biggest obstacle in your opinion)? 
  
Commercial Common Lisp is the finest development environment available today. 
There are no obstacles other than the biases of engineers. 
  
- Would you be interested in a Lisp-related job or contract work? 
  
Currently employed as a Lisp engineer. 
  
- Is your organization interested in hiring Lisp programmers? 
  
Not at present. 
  
- Are you currently participating in Lisp-related meetings? 
  If so, where and how often? 
  If not, would you be interested in such meetings? 
  
No. If there were meetings locally I might participate.