- First name: John L. 
  
- Last name: Gordon 
  
- Email address: REMOVED
  
- Home page: www.akri.org 
  
- Phone number(s): 01254 677433 (UK) 
  
- Postal code: BB1 5QB 
  
- City: Blackburn 
  
- Country: UK 
  
- Organization(s) you work for or study at 
  (please supply the name and city for each organization): 
Applied Knowledge Research Institute (for Blackburn College) 
Blackburn UK 
  
- Fields of interest 
  (e.g. computer linguistics, numerical analysis, business software, 
  medicine, bioinformatics): 
Knowledge and Artificial Intelligence 
  
  
- 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. 
Constant development of Structural Knowledge Analysis Tool (SKAT) 
Intelligent Home software (not recent) 
  
- 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: 
  
- Lisp implementations you have used 
  (e.g. CMUCL, Lispworks, Allegro Common Lisp): 
Lispworks for Windows 
  
- Lisp implementations you're currently using or intend to use 
  in the near future: 
  
- Computer platforms on which you're using or deploying Lisp: 
Windows 
  
 Windows XP 
- Number of years of experience with Lisp: 
20 (but all only at a minimal level of use) 
  
- Do you use Lisp: 
  - at work (if so, how much) yes, average about 6 hours per week 
  - for study (if so, how much) yes but infrequently 
  - as a hobby (if so, how much) no 
  
- Are you using Lisp as much as you would like to? 
  If not, why not? 
No - Software creation is not my main job 
  
- Do you see any obstacles to further Lisp growth (if so, what 
  is the biggest obstacle in your opinion)? 
It is not used widely enough in business so the demand for graduates etc 
with this knowledge are not high (in the UK anyway) 
  
- Would you be interested in a Lisp-related job or contract work? 
No 
  
- Is your organization interested in hiring Lisp programmers? 
Not at the moment. 
  
- Are you currently participating in Lisp-related meetings? 
  If so, where and how often? 
  If not, would you be interested in such meetings? 
No