- First name: 
  
Erik 
  
  
- Last name: 
  
Winkels 
  
  
- Email address: 
  
REMOVED
  
  
- Home page: 
  
http://www.xs4all.nl/~euqirea/ 
  
  
- Phone number(s): 
  
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- Postal code: 
  
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- City: 
  
Den Haag (The Hague) 
  
  
- Country: 
  
The Netherlands 
  
  
- Fields of interest 
 (e.g. computer linguistics, numerical analysis, business software, 
  medicine, bioinformatics): 
  
Games & Game A.I. (or rather S.I.: Simulated Intelligence) 
  
  
- Have you written any Lisp-related papers? If so, please supply 
 bibliographical references (and URL's, if possible). 
  
Nope. 
  
  
- Have you developed or participated in the development of any 
 Lisp-related programs or libraries? If so, please supply a URL, 
 if possible. 
  
http://cl-sdl.sf.net/ 
  
  
- Lisp variants you have used (e.g. Common Lisp, Scheme, Dylan): 
  
Common Lisp and Scheme. 
  
And some Lisp variant in the late 80's on my Atari ST.  No idea 
which one though :-) 
  
  
- Lisp variants you're currently using or intend to use in the 
 near future: 
  
ECL, CMUCL and CLISP I'm using now and I plan to use SBCL as well 
in the near future. 
  
  
- Lisp implementations you have used 
 (e.g. CMUCL, Lispworks, Allegro Common Lisp): 
  
ECL, CMUCL, CLISP, Lispworks, ACL, GCL and SBCL. 
  
  
- Computer platforms on which you're using or deploying Lisp: 
  
Mainly Linux and little bit of Windows. 
  
  
- Number of years of experience with Lisp: 
  
Been using it for five years now, but about six months of experience 
I think. 
  
  
- Do you use Lisp: 
 - at work (if so, how much) 
  
At work, very little but more and more :)  Not as much as I'd like 
at the moment. 
  
  
 - as a hobby (if so, how much) 
  
Not much the last two years since my motivation has been sucked 
away by my day job (software engineer). 
  
  
- Are you using Lisp as much as you would like to? 
 If not, why not? 
  
Nope.  For the hobby: see above. 
  
For work because I'm not able to communicate why it is so much 
better than Perl or PHP.  And for a lot of people the availability 
of lots of libraries (CPAN, Java, Microsoft, etc.) is a strong 
reason to keep using those languages.  (And the fact that those 
languages are hype-oriented (XMS, J2EE, blah blah blah).) 
  
(And, frankly, I don't care one way or the other if someone wants 
  to keep using Perl or whatever.  So I'm not really cut out to be 
  an evangelist.  I show them a interesting path they can journey 
  on, but it's for them to the decide whether to take it or stick 
  to the ways they know.) 
  
  
- Do you see any obstacles to further Lisp growth (if so, what 
 is the biggest obstacle in your opinion)? 
  
Other popular are getting more-and-more Lisp features so there's 
less-and-less reason to switch to Lisp.  I think sooner Python, 
Ruby or Perl will become Lisp equivalent within ten to fifteen 
years than (not then!) Lisp will become popular. 
  
(I'm mainly speaking from a Common Lisp perspective here.) 
  
  
- Would you be interested in a Lisp-related job or contract work? 
  
Certainly. 
  
  
- Is your organization interested in hiring Lisp programmers? 
  
Nope. 
  
  
- Are you currently participating in Lisp-related meetings? 
 If so, where and how often? 
 If not, would you be interested in such meetings? 
  
I have been planning to go to one of the Benelux or Cologne 
meetings for a while now. 
  
Toyed with going to Norway. 
  
So yes, I'm interested :-)