- First name:
 
Janis
 
- Last name:
 
Dzerins
 
- Email address:
 
REMOVED
 
- Phone number(s):
 
+3719123913
 
- Postal code:
 
LV1011
 
- City:
 
Riga
 
- State or province:
 
n/a
 
- Country:
 
Latvia
 
- Organization(s) you work for or study at
   (please supply the name and city for each organization):
 
Currently unemployed.
 
- Fields of interest
   (e.g. computer linguistics, numerical analysis, business software,
    medicine, bioinformatics):
 
Computer games.
 
- 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.
 
A simple game using CLIM: http://www.ltn.lv/~jonis/clones.html
An rfc2388 implementation: http://common-lisp.net/project/rfc2388/
A web search engine while working for one of my previous employers: http://search.latnet.lv
 
- Lisp variants you have used (e.g. Common Lisp, Scheme, Dylan):
 
Commmon 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):
 
Allegro CL, LispWorks, CMUCL, SBCL, CLisp
 
- Lisp implementations you're currently using or intend to use
   in the near future:
 
LispWorks, SBCL, CMUCL
 
- Computer platforms on which you're using or deploying Lisp:
 
Linux, Windows
 
- Number of years of experience with Lisp:
 
about 3 years
 
- Experience with other programming languages (please supply the
   number of years and the name of the language):
 
C++    - 2 years
Java   - 1 year
C#     - 1 year
PL/SQL - 1 year
 
- Total number of years of programming experience:
 
about 8 years
 
- Do you use Lisp:
   - at work (if so, how much)
   - for study (if so, how much)
   - as a hobby (if so, how much)
 
Used lisp at work as a scripting language for various once-only tools (like generating an SQL script from data 
stored in CSV file or traversing source code and making updates where necessary).
 
As a hobby I'm playing with OpenGL from Common Lisp at the moment.  I hope to write a "real" game.
 
- Are you using Lisp as much as you would like to?
   If not, why not?
 
At the moment I'm using lisp exclusively, since I'm not employed.  I'm not sure I'll find a job where 
application developement will be done in Common Lisp (unless I found my own company to do just that).
 
- Do you see any obstacles to further Lisp growth (if so, what
   is the biggest obstacle in your opinion)?
 
Lisp gets a lot of publicity lately.  More people get interested.  More code is being written.
 
- Would you be interested in a Lisp-related job or contract work?
 
Yes, gladly.
 
- Is your organization interested in hiring Lisp programmers?
 
Not the ones I've been working for.
 
- Are you currently participating in Lisp-related meetings?
   If so, where and how often?
   If not, would you be interested in such meetings?
 
I'm thinking of creating a Latvian Lisp Users Group or something like that.  But nothing so far.  The only lisp 
programmers I know are the ones who started learning lisp from my influence.