- First name: Doug 
  
- Last name: Currie 
  
- Email address: REMOVED
  
- Phone number(s): +1-603-644-4500 
  
- Postal code: 03053 
  
- City: Londonderry 
  
- State or province: NH 
  
- Country: USA 
  
- Organization(s) you work for or study at 
  (please supply the name and city for each organization): 
  
Parallel Simulation Technology, LLC 
Auburn, NH 
  
Sunrise Labs, Inc. 
Auburn, NH 
  
- Fields of interest 
  (e.g. computer linguistics, numerical analysis, business software, 
  medicine, bioinformatics): 
  
system architecture 
software architecture 
compiler back end 
embedded systems 
Parallel Inference Machine 
little languages 
  
- Have you written any Lisp-related papers? If so, please supply 
  bibliographical references (and URL's, if possible). 
  
- Have you developed or participated in the development of any 
  Lisp-related programs or libraries? If so, please supply a URL, 
  if possible. 
  
Flavors Parallel Inference Machine and Paracell Navigator 
http://www.parallelsimulationtechnology.com 
  
- Lisp variants you have used (e.g. Common Lisp, Scheme, Dylan): 
  
Lisp Machine Lisp, Common Lisp, Scheme 
  
- 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): 
  
Lisp Machine Lisp (Symbolics, LMI, TI) 
Macintosh Common Lisp 
Franz Allegro Common Lisp 
Lispworks for Windows 
  
Gambit Scheme 
Chicken 
TinyScheme 
XLISP 
  
- Lisp implementations you're currently using or intend to use 
  in the near future: 
  
Macintosh Common Lisp 
Lispworks for Windows 
  
- Computer platforms on which you're using or deploying Lisp: 
  
Apple Macintosh 
Windows XP 
  
- Number of years of experience with Lisp: 
  
30 
  
- Experience with other programming languages (please supply the 
  number of years and the name of the language): 
  
32 various assembly languages 
28 horizontal microcode 
28 FORTH (and FASL, FIL) 
30 C 
18 SQL 
15 Paracell 
11 SML and CAML 
 9 Java 
 3 Python 
 1 C# 
  
- Total number of years of programming experience: 
  
32 
  
- Do you use Lisp: 
  - at work (if so, how much) 
Yes, not as much as I'd like. 
  - for study (if so, how much) 
  - as a hobby (if so, how much) 
Yes, but not lately. 
  
- Are you using Lisp as much as you would like to? 
  If not, why not? 
  
Most of my work is in embedded systems these days. 
I continue to maintain a large Lisp program (Paracell Navigator) for 
PST, so I am not getting too rusty! 
  
- Do you see any obstacles to further Lisp growth (if so, what 
  is the biggest obstacle in your opinion)? 
  
I see competition from ML family of languages (Standard ML and O'Caml). 
Their strong static typing can be a win (or a loss) depending on the 
application. 
  
There is also some competition from scripting languages (Python, 
Ruby), and web tools (PHP, Java, etc.). 
  
- Would you be interested in a Lisp-related job or contract work? 
  
Yes, please contact Sunrise Labs, Inc. http://www.sunriselabs.com 
  
- Is your organization interested in hiring Lisp programmers? 
  
Not until we find development contracts. 
  
- Are you currently participating in Lisp-related meetings? 
  If so, where and how often? 
  If not, would you be interested in such meetings? 
  
No, but may be interested.