- First name: Jock 
- Last name: Cooper 
- Email address: REMOVED
- Home page: www.fractal-recursions.com 
- Phone number(s): 805-499-8076 
- Postal code: 91320 
- City: Thousand Oaks, California 
- Country: USA 
- Organization(s) you work for or study at 
  (please supply the name and city for each organization): 
Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, Califorinia 
- Fields of interest 
  (e.g. computer linguistics, numerical analysis, business software, 
  medicine, bioinformatics): 
Lisp, Fractal images, music, and animations, 3D graphics, gaming 
- Have you written any Lisp-related papers? If so, please supply 
  bibliographical references (and URL's, if possible). 
NO 
- Have you developed or participated in the development of any 
  Lisp-related programs or libraries? If so, please supply a URL, 
  if possible. 
NO 
- 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): 
CMUCL, ACL, Corman 
- Lisp implementations you're currently using or intend to use 
  in the near future: 
CMUCL, ACL, Corman 
- Computer platforms on which you're using or deploying Lisp: 
Redhat 7, Windows 2k, Windows XP 
- Number of years of experience with Lisp: 
3 
- Do you use Lisp: 
  - at work (if so, how much): 
yes, daily 
  - for study (if so, how much): 
not really 
  - as a hobby (if so, how much): 
yes, some.  I use CL for general scripting and for fractal animation/manipulation.  
I do not generate fractals with CL, I manipulate the program specific parameter files 
(programs: Ultra Fractal and Xenodream).

- Are you using Lisp as much as you would like to? 
  If not, why not? 
Pretty much 
- Do you see any obstacles to further Lisp growth (if so, what 
  is the biggest obstacle in your opinion)?  
Persistent misperceptions, lack of Microsoft brand,  too difficult for 
most programmers to grok 

- Would you be interested in a Lisp-related job or contract work? 
Yes 
- Is your organization interested in hiring Lisp programmers? 
No, and they would probably prefer that I use VB.NET 

- Are you currently participating in Lisp-related meetings? 
NO 
  If so, where and how often? 
  If not, would you be interested in such meetings? 
possibly