- First name: John 
  
- Last name: Carroll 
  
- Email address: REMOVED
  
- Home page: http://www.informatics.susx.ac.uk/research/nlp/carroll/ 
  
- Phone number(s): +44 1273 678029 
  
- Postal code: BN1 9QH 
  
- City: Brighton 
  
- Country: UK 
  
- Organization(s) you work for or study at 
  (please supply the name and city for each organization): 
  
University of Sussex, Brighton 
iLexIR, Brighton/Camridge 
  
- Fields of interest 
  (e.g. computer linguistics, numerical analysis, business software, 
  medicine, bioinformatics): 
  
computational linguistics 
  
- 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. 
  
profile.lisp - execution time profiler for MCL and OpenMCL 
http://www.hotdispatch.com/view-ip-requester?ID=17125582 
  
implemented portions of Procyon Common Lisp (printer, CLOS, MOP, etc.) 
  
- Lisp variants you have used (e.g. Common Lisp, Scheme, Dylan): 
  
Common Lisp, Cambridge 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): 
  
OpenMCL, MCL, Allegro CL, Procyon CL, Lucid 
  
- Lisp implementations you're currently using or intend to use 
  in the near future: 
  
OpenMCL, MCL, Allegro CL 
  
- Computer platforms on which you're using or deploying Lisp: 
  
Mac OS X, Solaris/Sparc, Linux/x86 
  
- Number of years of experience with Lisp: 
  
22 years 
  
- Do you use Lisp: 
  - at work (if so, how much) 
  - for study (if so, how much) 
  - as a hobby (if so, how much) 
  
at work, 70% of programming time 
  
- Are you using Lisp as much as you would like to? 
  If not, why not? 
  
yes 
  
- Do you see any obstacles to further Lisp growth (if so, what 
  is the biggest obstacle in your opinion)? 
  
myths of slowness and memory size, hostility to parentheses 
  
- Would you be interested in a Lisp-related job or contract work? 
  
no 
  
- Is your organization interested in hiring Lisp programmers? 
  
not at present 
  
- Are you currently participating in Lisp-related meetings? 
  If so, where and how often? 
  If not, would you be interested in such meetings? 
  
not participating, but would be interested