- First name:  Frank 
  
- Last name:  Deutschmann 
  
- Email address:  REMOVED
  
- Home page:  www.trepp.com 
  
- Phone number(s):  1-212-754-1010 
  
- Postal code:  10022 
  
- City:  New York 
  
- Country:  USA 
  
- Organization(s) you work for or study at 
  (please supply the name and city for each organization): 
  
Trepp, LLC 
  
  
- Fields of interest 
  (e.g. computer linguistics, numerical analysis, business software, 
  medicine, bioinformatics): 
  
Financial Modeling 
  
- 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. 
  
Yes, internal use. 
  
- Lisp variants you have used (e.g. Common Lisp, Scheme, Dylan): 
  
Common Lisp, Scheme. 
  
- Lisp variants you're currently using or intend to use in the 
  near future: 
  
Scheme, possibly CL. 
  
- Lisp implementations you have used 
  (e.g. CMUCL, Lispworks, Allegro Common Lisp): 
  
Various. 
  
- Lisp implementations you're currently using or intend to use 
  in the near future: 
  
Various. 
  
- Computer platforms on which you're using or deploying Lisp: 
  
Linux, Windows. 
  
- Number of years of experience with Lisp: 
  
20 
  
- Do you use Lisp: 
  - at work (if so, how much)  50% 
  - for study (if so, how much) 
  - as a hobby (if so, how much) 
  
- 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)? 
  
Lisp needs to demonstrate the solid value proposition versus Perl and the 
rest of the interpreted toy language crowd.  Perl, Python, et al are now 
being used to build large systems that would be much better in Lisp, and 
those languages are coming closed and closer to reinventing Lisp along a 
slow and painful path.... 
  
- Would you be interested in a Lisp-related job or contract work? 
  
Yes, already have it. 
  
- Is your organization interested in hiring Lisp programmers? 
  
Yes. 
  
- 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 yes, interested.  (NYC or East Coast US area vastly 
preferable.)