- First name: Larry 
  
- Last name: Clapp 
  
- Email address: REMOVED
  
- Phone number(s): 
  
- Postal code: 33544 
  
- City: Wesley Chapel (near Tampa) 
  
- State or province: Florida 
  
- Country: Unites States of North America 
  
- Organization(s) you work for or study at 
  (please supply the name and city for each organization): 
  
  Verizon Data Services, Temple Terrace, FL 
  
- Fields of interest 
  (e.g. computer linguistics, numerical analysis, business software, 
  medicine, bioinformatics): 
  
  O/S Design 
  Business Software 
  Handheld computing 
  
- Have you written any Lisp-related papers? If so, please supply 
  bibliographical references (and URL's, if possible). 
  
  Lisp with Vim, http://www.lisp-p.org/15-vim/ 
  
- Have you developed or participated in the development of any 
  Lisp-related programs or libraries? If so, please supply a URL, 
  if possible. 
  
  - Author, VILisp.vim, 
   http://vim.sourceforge.net/scripts/script.php?script_id=221 
  - Some very minor patches to ECL 
  
- 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 
  - Nice (actually a Java variant, but has a lot of the features of 
   CLOS) 
  
- Lisp implementations you have used 
  (e.g. CMUCL, Lispworks, Allegro Common Lisp): 
  
  CMU Common Lisp 
  ECL: Embeddable Common Lisp 
  GNU CLisp 
  LispWorks Personal Edition 
  
- Lisp implementations you're currently using or intend to use 
  in the near future: 
  
  See above 
  
- Computer platforms on which you're using or deploying Lisp: 
  
  - Debian GNU/Linux 
  - Sharp Zaurus 
  
- Number of years of experience with Lisp: 
  
  3 years of light use/study 
  
- Experience with other programming languages (please supply the 
  number of years and the name of the language): 
  
  Professional/paid Use 
  10 C 
  2  C++ 
  2  Java 
  5+ Perl 
  13 ksh/zsh 
  
  Personal/hobby Use 
  BASIC, Turbo Pascal, Python, Tcl/Tk, 8088 & 68k Assembler, Common Lisp 
  
- Total number of years of programming experience: 
  
  20 
  
- Do you use Lisp: 
  - at work (if so, how much) 
  - for study (if so, how much) 
  - as a hobby (if so, how much) 
  
  Yes, a few hours/week 
  
- Are you using Lisp as much as you would like to? 
  If not, why not? 
  
  - No; lack of personal time 
  - Boss (and co-workers, actually) says We don't want to use Lisp 
   'cause we're afraid it might be hard to find Lisp programmers in 
   the future. 
  
- Do you see any obstacles to further Lisp growth (if so, what 
  is the biggest obstacle in your opinion)? 
  
  - Uninformed/prejudiced university instructors 
  - Newbies that can't see past the (), want everything handed to them 
   on a silver platter, and want their 2-line "Hello World" "program" 
   to compile to a 2k standalone .exe file and run everywhere -- not 
   that they have anywhere *specific* in mind, mind you, just in 
   principle.  Oh, and they want it as fast as C, while still keeping 
   all the cool debugging features.  In short, prematurely old 
   curmudgeons like me.  :) 
  
- Would you be interested in a Lisp-related job or contract work? 
  
  Yes. 
  
- Is your organization interested in hiring Lisp programmers? 
  
  Not that I know of. 
  
- 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