> - First name: 
  
Gareth 
  
> - Last name: 
  
McCaughan 
  
> - Email address: 
  
REMOVED
  
> - Home page: 
  
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/g.mccaughan/g/ 
  
> - City: 
  
Cambridge 
  
> - Country: 
  
Unitec Kingdom 
  
> - Organization(s) you work for or study at 
>   (please supply the name and city for each organization): 
  
Synaptics (UK) Limited 
  
> - Fields of interest 
>   (e.g. computer linguistics, numerical analysis, business software, 
>   medicine, bioinformatics): 
  
Everything. 
  
> - 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. 
  
Only for my own use. 
  
> - Lisp variants you have used (e.g. Common Lisp, Scheme, Dylan): 
  
LISP 1.5, Common Lisp, Scheme, Emacs Lisp, and a few other 
obscure ones. 
  
> - Lisp variants you're currently using or intend to use in the 
>   near future: 
  
Common Lisp and (to a lesser degree, and for other reasons) 
Emacs Lisp. 
  
> - Lisp implementations you have used 
>   (e.g. CMUCL, Lispworks, Allegro Common Lisp): 
  
CMU CL, CLISP. A little bit of LispWorks. Various others 
to a much lesser extent. And, I suppose, Emacs. 
  
> - Lisp implementations you're currently using or intend to use 
>   in the near future: 
  
CMU CL, CLISP. 
  
> - Computer platforms on which you're using or deploying Lisp: 
  
FreeBSD/ia32. 
  
> - Number of years of experience with Lisp: 
  
Depends on what constitutes experience. I first learned a 
Lisp dialect about 20 years ago, I suppose, but I've only 
been an active Lisper for something more like 10 years. 
  
> - Do you use Lisp: 
>   - at work (if so, how much) 
>   - for study (if so, how much) 
>   - as a hobby (if so, how much) 
  
At work: a little. For study: no. As a hobby: somewhat. 
  
> - Are you using Lisp as much as you would like to? 
>   If not, why not? 
  
I would like to use it more, but it wouldn't be politically 
acceptable for me to use it much more at work and there are 
limits to the time and energy I have available for hobby use. 
  
> - Do you see any obstacles to further Lisp growth (if so, what 
>   is the biggest obstacle in your opinion)? 
  
I assume "Lisp growth" here means an increase in the number 
of people (or the proportion of software developers, or 
something) using Lisp. I'm not sure "obstacles" is the right 
word, but there are plenty of reasons (some better than others) 
why lots of people wouldn't use Lisp. 
  
> - Would you be interested in a Lisp-related job or contract work? 
  
I'm happy with the job I have at present. But if I were 
looking for work and something Lispy came along, I'd be 
interested. 
  
> - Is your organization interested in hiring Lisp programmers? 
  
No. 
  
> - Are you currently participating in Lisp-related meetings? 
>   If so, where and how often? 
>   If not, would you be interested in such meetings? 
  
No, I'm not. I'm interested enough to be on the uk-lispers 
mailing list, but not interested enough to have actually 
made it to any of their meetings.