- First name: 
  
Jim 
  
- Last name: 
  
Newton 
  
- Email address: 
REMOVED  
  
- Phone number(s): 
  
- Postal code: 
  
80802 
  
- City: 
  
Munich 
  
- Country: 
  
Germany 
  
- Organization(s) you work for or study at 
  (please supply the name and city for each organization): 
  
Cadence Design Systems 
  
- Fields of interest 
  (e.g. computer linguistics, numerical analysis, business software, 
  medicine, bioinformatics): 
  
Electronic Design Automation 
  
- Have you written any Lisp-related papers? If so, please supply 
  bibliographical references (and URL's, if possible). 
  
Not published yet. 
  
- Have you developed or participated in the development of any 
  Lisp-related programs or libraries? If so, please supply a URL, 
  if possible. 
  
No public ones. 
  
- Lisp variants you have used (e.g. Common Lisp, Scheme, Dylan): 
  
SKILL, Common Lisp 
  
- Lisp variants you're currently using or intend to use in the 
  near future: 
  
SKILL 
  
- Lisp implementations you have used 
  (e.g. CMUCL, Lispworks, Allegro Common Lisp): 
  
clisp 
  
- Lisp implementations you're currently using or intend to use 
  in the near future: 
  
clisp 
  
- Computer platforms on which you're using or deploying Lisp: 
  
Linux, Solaris 
  
- Number of years of experience with Lisp: 
  
16 
  
- Do you use Lisp: 
  - at work (if so, how much) 
  
yes 
  
  - for study (if so, how much) 
  
no 
  
  - as a hobby (if so, how much) 
  
yes 
  
- Are you using Lisp as much as you would like to? 
  If not, why not? 
  
no, 
  
- Do you see any obstacles to further Lisp growth (if so, what 
  is the biggest obstacle in your opinion)? 
  
I think the biggest obstical is the lack of robust internet 
related libraries.  If i need a package to do some task 
it is much more likely that i can find it on CPAN or probably 
even for Python or Java. 
  
- Would you be interested in a Lisp-related job or contract work? 
  
yes 
  
- Is your organization interested in hiring Lisp programmers? 
  
yes 
  
- Are you currently participating in Lisp-related meetings? 
  
no 
  
  If so, where and how often? 
  If not, would you be interested in such meetings? 
  
yes