> - First name: 
  
Larry 
  
 > - Last name: 
  
Hunter 
  
 > - Email address: 
  
REMOVED
  
 > - Home page: 
  
http://compbio.uchsc.edu/hunter 
  
  
 > - Phone number(s): 
  
+1 303-315-1094 
  
 > - Postal code: 
  
80220 
  
 > - City: 
  
Denver 
  
 > - Country: 
  
USA 
  
 > - Organization(s) you work for or study at 
 >  (please supply the name and city for each organization): 
  
University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, CO 
  
  
 > - Fields of interest 
 >  (e.g. computer linguistics, numerical analysis, business software, 
 >   medicine, bioinformatics): 
  
Bioinformatics, machine learning, natural language processing 
  
  
 > - Have you written any Lisp-related papers? If so, please supply 
 >  bibliographical references (and URL's, if possible). 
  
It's not really a paper, but I have written a bunch of course 
materials about lisp, including a powerpoint presentation on why one 
might want to program in lisp.  http://compbio.uchsc.edu/hunter/lisp 
  
 > - Have you developed or participated in the development of any 
 >  Lisp-related programs or libraries? If so, please supply a URL, 
 >  if possible. 
  
Quite a few over the years.  Some that are in current use are: 
  
  Statistics.cl 
   Many statistical routines 
   http://biolisp.org/Code/cl-statistics.tar.gz 
  
  Amino-acids.cl  
   Information about each amino acid in lisp datastructures 
   http://biolisp.org/Code/lhamino-acids20001015.cl 
  
  acldoc.el 
   A browser for the Allegro CL documentation under emacs 
   http://compbio.uchsc.edu/Hunter/acldoc.el 
  
I've also contributed to ILISP.... 
  
 > - Lisp variants you have used (e.g. Common Lisp, Scheme, Dylan): 
  
Over the last couple of decades, many of them.  CL, scheme, T, 
LispMachine lisp, etc. 
  
  
 > - 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): 
  
Again, many of them.  The last 5 years have been all Allegro.  These 
days I often use 64 bit versions, and have funded two 64 bit ports of 
Franz products. 
  
  
 > - Lisp implementations you're currently using or intend to use 
 >  in the near future: 
  
Allegro. 
  
  
 > - Computer platforms on which you're using or deploying Lisp: 
  
64 bit Power4/Aix (IBM p690 supercomputer) 
64 bit Opteron/linux 
64 bit Apple G5 (port in the works) 
32 bit intel/linux 
  
  
 > - Number of years of experience with Lisp: 
  
25 
  
 > - Do you use Lisp: 
 >  - at work (if so, how much) 
  
100% 
  
 > - Are you using Lisp as much as you would like to? 
 >  If not, why not? 
  
Yes.  Well, I'm a busy professor and I wish I had more time to hack, 
but it's not lisp's fault.  In fact, lisp is one of the reasons I am 
as productive a programmer as I am despite not having much time for 
it. 
  
 > - Do you see any obstacles to further Lisp growth (if so, what 
 >  is the biggest obstacle in your opinion)? 
  
Not my problem.  So long as there are implementations that keep up 
with current hardware and other new computational facilities (e.g. I'm 
a big user/provider of web services, and have a strong interest in 
semantic web tools), I'm happy. 
  
 > - Would you be interested in a Lisp-related job or contract work? 
  
No thanks. 
  
 > - Is your organization interested in hiring Lisp programmers? 
  
On occasion, yes. 
  
 > - Are you currently participating in Lisp-related meetings? 
 >  If so, where and how often? 
  
Yes, I go to (and help organize) the Denver area lisp users group 
meetings, and gave a talk at the last ILC.