> - First name: Espen 
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> - Last name:Vestre 
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> - Email address: see From, please do not expose on web 
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> - Phone number(s): work: 23 15 86 00 
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> - Postal code: 0184 
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> - City: Oslo 
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> - Country: Norway 
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> - Organization(s) you work for or study at 
>   (please supply the name and city for each organization): 
  
Netfonds ASA, Norway 
  
> - Fields of interest 
>   (e.g. computer linguistics, numerical analysis, business software, 
>   medicine, bioinformatics): 
  
Communications, Internet, Finance, Business, Computer Linguistic, 
AI, Mathematics 
  
> - Have you written any Lisp-related papers? If so, please supply 
>   bibliographical references (and URL's, if possible). 
  
1) "An Algorithm for Generating Non-redundant Quantifier Scopings" 
   Proceedings of EACL conference, Berlin, 1991 
  
2) "The K2 System: Lisp at the Core of the ISP Business" 
   Proceedings of the European Lisp User Group Meeting 1999, 
   Amsterdam 1999 
  
3) "The K2 System: Lisp at the Core of the ISP Business" 
   Japan Lisp User Group Meeting, Tokyo 2000 
   http://www.franz.com/services/conferences_seminars/jlugm00/conference/Talk05_Vestre.pdf 
  
4) "Lisp as a Business Work Horse" 
   To appear in: Proceedings of ILC'03, New York, 2003 
   Paper and slides here: http://espen.vestre.net/ilc03/ 
  
> - Have you developed or participated in the development of any 
>   Lisp-related programs or libraries? If so, please supply a URL, 
>   if possible. 
  
See papers. 
  
> - Lisp variants you have used (e.g. Common Lisp, Scheme, Dylan): 
  
Common Lisp, Interlisp, Scheme, a little Emacs 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): 
  
MCL, ACL, LW, CMUCL, SBCL (and long ago: Xerox Interlisp/CL, Lucid) 
  
> - Lisp implementations you're currently using or intend to use 
>   in the near future: 
  
MCL, LW 
  
> - Computer platforms on which you're using or deploying Lisp: 
  
Linux (intel/amd), Windows, Mac OS X, OpenBSD 
  
> - Number of years of experience with Lisp: 
  
16 
  
> - Do you use Lisp: 
>   - at work (if so, how much) 
  
More than 20h per week 
  
>   - for study (if so, how much) 
  
Not any more 
  
>   - as a hobby (if so, how much) 
  
Every now and then, mainly as a calculator :-) (I would also like 
to teach my kids lisp, and I am looking for a good way to make 
it fun) 
  
> - Are you using Lisp as much as you would like to? 
  
Yes 
  
> - Do you see any obstacles to further Lisp growth (if so, what 
>   is the biggest obstacle in your opinion)? 
  
The biggest threat is the mindset of many corporate managers, 
and the sad attempts in academia to get "market-oriented" by 
going with the hype instead of being independent. 
  
> - Would you be interested in a Lisp-related job or contract work? 
  
I already have :-) 
  
> - Is your organization interested in hiring Lisp programmers? 
  
Possibly, but not right now. 
  
> - Are you currently participating in Lisp-related meetings? 
>   If so, where and how often? 
  
I go to conferences (see above references, in addition I was at 
ELUGM-98 (London) and the recent meeting in Oslo. I have also 
tried to organize lispnik social meetings in Oslo (so far we 
only had one event, but it was successful).