> - First name:
Jens
> - Last name:
Grabarske
> - Email address:
REMOVED
> - Home page:
http://www.grabarske.de
> - Phone number(s):
+49 40 411 68 907 (landline)
+49 179 39 11 829 (mobile)
> - Postal code:
D-22307
> - City:
Hamburg
> - Country:
Germany
> - Organization(s) you work for or study at
>  (please supply the name and city for each organization):
University of Hamburg (study)
Self-employed (work)
> - Fields of interest
>  (e.g. computer linguistics, numerical analysis, business software,
>  medicine, bioinformatics):
Artificial Intelligence, artificial life, autonomous systems, wearables, 
automatic proving, and all kinds of other stuff.
In philosophy: argumentation theory, propaganda analysis and Plato.
> - Have you written any Lisp-related papers? If so, please supply
>  bibliographical references (and URL's, if possible).
Papers... well, I wrote some articles for the German computer magazine 
"Toolbox" about Lisp. "Das Konzept von Lisp" (don't blame me, they chose the 
title). Toolbox 1/6 - 6/6, 2002.
> - Have you developed or participated in the development of any
>  Lisp-related programs or libraries? If so, please supply a URL,
>  if possible.
Yes, Lawis, a logfile analyser of a (now sadly gone) small company. No URL, 
I'm afraid.
> - Lisp variants you have used (e.g. Common Lisp, Scheme, Dylan):
Common Lisp, Scheme
Emacs Lisp (well, just in the amount you need to get Emacs to be helpful)
> - Lisp variants you're currently using or intend to use in the
>  near future:
Common Lisp, Scheme
Emacs Lisp (well, just in the amount you need to get Emacs to be helpful)
Arc (when it will be finished)
> - Lisp implementations you have used
>  (e.g. CMUCL, Lispworks, Allegro Common Lisp):
CMUCL, Allegro Common Lisp, Clisp, Scsh, guile, Stalin, UCB Scheme, MzScheme, 
LispMe, GCL, SBCL, BigLoo, Xlisp and some Lispworks.
> - Lisp implementations you're currently using or intend to use
>  in the near future:
CMUCL, Clisp, guile, Stalin, MzScheme (for educational purposes perhaps), 
SBCL, BigLoo, Xlisp (for some interesting projects), Hedgehog Lisp, Lispworks 
(as soon as I can afford a license).
> - Computer platforms on which you're using or deploying Lisp:
Linux / other Unix derivates, Windows
> - Number of years of experience with Lisp:
7
> - Do you use Lisp:
>  - at work (if so, how much)
quite a lot
>  - for study (if so, how much)
not as much as I hope (they uninstalled Lisp at my university!)
>  - as a hobby (if so, how much)
quite a lot
> - Are you using Lisp as much as you would like to?
>  If not, why not?
At work I try to do as much with Lisp as I can. I don't actually develop 
applications with it, but rather little tools that help me with converting 
data for customers. The customer doesn't care what kind of tools you use as 
long as the outcome is ok. I do would like to develop Lisp programs for 
customers, though...
At study I would like to use Lisp more than I currently do, but I think it's 
dangerous to stick with the same programming language all the time - that 
leads to stereotypes and misconceptions about other languages.
> - Do you see any obstacles to further Lisp growth (if so, what
>  is the biggest obstacle in your opinion)?
Yes, indeed I do. The biggest obstacle in my opinion is the lacking 
standardisation. The ANSI Common Lisp standard is great, but it's old. The 
computing world has changed and it's essential that Common Lisp 
implementations have certain means to react to that in a standardised manner 
(and not, like it's done at the moment, in incompatible insular solutions).
> - Would you be interested in a Lisp-related job or contract work?
Definitely! Can I start yesterday?
> - Is your organization interested in hiring Lisp programmers?
As I'm self-employed, I can only speak of myself. But yes, I would like to 
team up with other Lisp programmers to develop stuff.
> - Are you currently participating in Lisp-related meetings?
>  If so, where and how often?
>  If not, would you be interested in such meetings?
The Lisp-HH meeting, which takes place every now and then.