> - First name: 
François-René 
  
> - Last name: 
Rideau 
  
> - Email address: 
REMOVED
  
> - Home page: 
http://fare.tunes.org/ 
  
> - Phone number(s): 
+33 661315545 
  
> - Postal code: 
L-1511 
  
> - City: 
Luxembourg 
  
> - Country: 
Luxembourg 
  
> - Organization(s) you work for or study at 
>  (please supply the name and city for each organization): 
Centre de Recherche Publique Gabriel Lippmann, Luxembourg, Luxembourg 
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, Paris, France 
  
> - Fields of interest 
>  (e.g. computer linguistics, numerical analysis, business software, 
>   medicine, bioinformatics): 
Operating Systems 
Distributed Software Architecture 
Web Application Infrastructure 
  
> - Have you written any Lisp-related papers? If so, please supply 
>  bibliographical references (and URL's, if possible). 
Lisp-related on the far side: 
	Metaprogramming and Free Availability of Sources 
	http://fare.tunes.org/articles/ll99/index.en.html 
  
> - Have you developed or participated in the development of any 
>  Lisp-related programs or libraries? If so, please supply a URL, 
>  if possible. 
I'm the author of a few small tidbits of software: 
	http://www.cliki.net/Fare%20Rideau 
  
> - Lisp variants you have used (e.g. Common Lisp, Scheme, Dylan): 
Scheme, Common Lisp, Emacs Lisp, HP28 RPL, etc. 
  
> - Lisp variants you're currently using or intend to use in the 
>  near future: 
SBCL, clisp 
  
> - Lisp implementations you have used 
>  (e.g. CMUCL, Lispworks, Allegro Common Lisp): 
clisp, CMUCL, SBCL, Allegro 
  
> - Lisp implementations you're currently using or intend to use 
>  in the near future: 
clisp, CMUCL, SBCL, Allegro 
  
> - Computer platforms on which you're using or deploying Lisp: 
Linux/x86, Windows XP, Linux/ARM 
  
> - Number of years of experience with Lisp: 
Quite a few (say, 8), but never that intensively, and still discovering. 
  
> - Do you use Lisp: 
>  - at work (if so, how much) 
Yes. Don't know. 
  
>  - for study (if so, how much) 
Yes. Don't know. 
  
>  - as a hobby (if so, how much) 
Yes. Don't know. 
  
> - Are you using Lisp as much as you would like to? 
>  If not, why not? 
No. Because I'm bad at managing my time (obviously). 
  
> - Do you see any obstacles to further Lisp growth (if so, what 
>  is the biggest obstacle in your opinion)? 
I see Lisp being both so far ahead of competition in some matters 
and so far behind in other matters as to make communication difficult 
with the mainstream. Also, the diversity in implementations and 
available extensions, though often bridgeable, means that porting 
between platform is much more of an issue than in other languages, 
which slows down communication of code. 
  
> - Would you be interested in a Lisp-related job or contract work? 
I have one, but sure I'd be interested. 
  
> - Is your organization interested in hiring Lisp programmers? 
Not at this time. 
  
> - Are you currently participating in Lisp-related meetings? 
>  If so, where and how often? 
Say once a year. 
  
>  If not, would you be interested in such meetings? 
Yes, definitely.