- First name: Gary 
  
- Last name: King 
  
- Email address: REMOVED
  
- Home page: eksl.cs.umass.edu/~gwking/unclog/ 
  
- Phone number(s): 413 577 0176 
  
- Postal code: 01002 
  
- City: Pelham 
  
- Country: USA 
  
- Organization(s) you work for or study at 
  
EKSL, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003 
  
- Fields of interest 
  
Artificial Intelligence, Bayesian Statistics, Language Design, 
Language Acquisition, Simulation 
  
- Have you written any Lisp-related papers? If so, please supply 
  bibliographical references (and URL's, if possible). 
  
  
- Have you developed or participated in the development of any 
  Lisp-related programs or libraries? If so, please supply a URL, 
  if possible. 
  
Tinaa: Tinaa Is Not An Acronym, it is a Lisp documentation tool 
	http://eksl.cs.umass.edu/~gwking/tinaa/ 
LIFT: LIsp Framework for Testing 
Containers: Common Lisp Container Library 
  
- Lisp variants you have used (e.g. Common Lisp, Scheme, Dylan): 
  
Common 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): 
  
Macintosh Common Lisp, OpenMCL, SBCL, LispWorks 
  
- Lisp implementations you're currently using or intend to use 
  in the near future: 
  
Macintosh Common Lisp, OpenMCL, SBCL 
  
- Computer platforms on which you're using or deploying Lisp: 
  
Apple Macintosh, OS X 
  
- Number of years of experience with Lisp: 
  
8 
  
- Do you use Lisp: 
  - at work (if so, how much): Yes, constantly 
  - for study (if so, how much): Yes, often 
  - as a hobby (if so, how much): Yes, constantly 
  
- Are you using Lisp as much as you would like to? 
  If not, why not? 
  
No, because Lisp is so great that you always want to use it for more! 
  
- Do you see any obstacles to further Lisp growth (if so, what 
  is the biggest obstacle in your opinion)? 
  
1. Lack of acceptance outside the community (all the old myths are still in force) 
2. Lack of innovation inside the community. This is typified by the 
stereotypical "The Lisp Machine had X and it was better". you sometimes 
hear. Even if true, it's time to move on and learn from the last 20-years. 
3. Lack of libraries and components -- ASDF and ASDF install are helping 
to change this. 
  
- Would you be interested in a Lisp-related job or contract work? 
  
Yes. 
  
- Is your organization interested in hiring Lisp programmers? 
  
Yes. Though it depends on funding and contracts. 
  
- 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 I would very much like to