- First name: Gene Michael 
  
- Last name: Stover 
  
- Email address: REMOVED
  
- Phone number(s): 
  
- Postal code: 
  
- City: 
  
- State or province: Washington 
  
- Country: USA 
  
- Organization(s) you work for or study at 
  (please supply the name and city for each organization): 
  
- Fields of interest 
  (e.g. computer linguistics, numerical analysis, business software, 
  medicine, bioinformatics): 
  Simulated evolution, compilers 
  
- Have you written any Lisp-related papers? If so, please supply 
  bibliographical references (and URL's, if possible). 
  
  I've written a lot of them at <http://lisp-p.org>, plus one that 
  should be published in Dr Dobb's magazine in late 2004. 
  
- Have you developed or participated in the development of any 
  Lisp-related programs or libraries? If so, please supply a URL, 
  if possible. 
  
  http://lisp-p.org 
  
- Lisp variants you have used (e.g. Common Lisp, Scheme, Dylan): 
  
  Mostly Common Lisp (clisp & sbcl), but some Gnu emacs Lisp. 
  
- Lisp variants you're currently using or intend to use in the 
  near future: 
  
  Mostly Common Lisp (clisp & sbcl), but some Gnu emacs Lisp. 
  
- Lisp implementations you have used 
  (e.g. CMUCL, Lispworks, Allegro Common Lisp): 
  
  clisp & sbcl 
  
- Lisp implementations you're currently using or intend to use 
  in the near future: 
  
  sbcl & clisp 
  
- Computer platforms on which you're using or deploying Lisp: 
  
  man unix-like systems 
  
- Number of years of experience with Lisp: 
  
  since 1997 
  
- Experience with other programming languages (please supply the 
  number of years and the name of the language): 
  
  Lots.  Some of them for decades. 
  
- Total number of years of programming experience: 25 
  
- Do you use Lisp: 
  - at work (if so, how much): 
For quick scripts that only I will use. 
Maybe one or two such programs a week. 
  
  - for study (if so, how much): 
Yes, when learning a technique, I usually experiment with it in Lisp first. 
  
  - as a hobby (if so, how much): 
Yes, all the time.  Most programming I do for myself is in Lisp.  Every day. 
  
- Are you using Lisp as much as you would like to? 
Yup. 
  If not, why not? 
  
- Do you see any obstacles to further Lisp growth (if so, what 
  is the biggest obstacle in your opinion)? 
  
  The biggest danger is for it to get too popular among the masses 
  of mindless copy-&-paste programmers.  That'd be cause if some 
  large software company grabbed Lisp as the next big thing & 
  produced their own non-standard, proprietary bastardized 
  implementation. 
  
- Would you be interested in a Lisp-related job or contract work? 
  
  Yes 
  
- Is your organization interested in hiring Lisp programmers? 
  
  We have one (me), & it's enough. 
  
- Are you currently participating in Lisp-related meetings? 
Yes 
  If so, where and how often? 
Seattle, a few times a year 
  If not, would you be interested in such meetings?