- First name: Mark 
  
- Last name: McConnell 
  
- Email address: REMOVED
  
- Phone number(s): 
  
- Postal code: 07059 
  
- City: Warren 
  
- State or province: NJ 
  
- Country: USA 
  
- Organization(s) you work for or study at 
  (please supply the name and city for each organization): 
  
- Fields of interest 
  (e.g. computer linguistics, numerical analysis, business software, 
  medicine, bioinformatics): 
  
  computational mathematics 
  computing for algebraic topology, number theory, group theory 
  symbolic algebra 
  numerical analysis (optimization) 
  discrete optimization 
  musical composition 
  
- Have you written any Lisp-related papers? If so, please supply 
  bibliographical references (and URL's, if possible). 
  
"Explicit reduction theory for Siegel modular threefolds", with Robert 
MacPherson, Inventiones Math. 111, 1993 (575-625). 
  
"Cohomology of congruence subgroups of SL(4,Z)", with Avner Ash and 
Paul Gunnells, Journal of Number Theory 94, 2002, no. 1, (181-212). 
  
- Have you developed or participated in the development of any 
  Lisp-related programs or libraries? If so, please supply a URL, 
  if possible. 
  
Sheafhom, a package for algebraic topology and intersection homology.  
Common Lisp, 10000 lines.  (URL unavailable.) 
  
- Lisp variants you have used (e.g. Common Lisp, Scheme, Dylan): 
  
Common Lisp, Scheme, Franz 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, CLISP, Allegro 
  
- 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: 
  
Windows 2000 
  
- Number of years of experience with Lisp: 
  
19 
  
- Experience with other programming languages (please supply the 
  number of years and the name of the language): 
  
Java professionally for 5 years 
Basic, APL, Fortran, C, ML, Visual Basic 
For math: Maple, Mathematica, Pari 
  
- Total number of years of programming experience: 
  
30+ 
  
- Do you use Lisp: 
  - at work (if so, how much)  
may start soon 
  - for study (if so, how much)   
5+ hours per week 
  - as a hobby (if so, how much) 
  
- Are you using Lisp as much as you would like to? 
  If not, why not? 
  
- Do you see any obstacles to further Lisp growth (if so, what 
  is the biggest obstacle in your opinion)? 
  
- Would you be interested in a Lisp-related job or contract work? 
  
yes 
  
- Is your organization interested in hiring Lisp programmers? 
  
no 
  
- Are you currently participating in Lisp-related meetings? 
  If so, where and how often? 
  
Lisp NYC, about once a month 
  
  If not, would you be interested in such meetings?