ÿ- First name: Mark
 
- Last name: Watson
 
- Email address: REMOVED
 
- Phone number(s): (928) 203-0146
 
- Postal code: 86336
 
- City: Sedona
 
- State or province: Arizona
 
- Country: USA
 
- Organization(s) you work for or study at
 (please supply the name and city for each organization):
 
I am an author (14 published books, including 2 Lisp books for
Springer-Verlag) and I work as an independent Java consultant.
 
- Fields of interest
 (e.g. computer linguistics, numerical analysis, business software,
  medicine, bioinformatics):
 
natural language processing, data mining, large scale networked systems, AI
 
- Have you written any Lisp-related papers? If so, please supply
 bibliographical references (and URL's, if possible).
 
I have a free web book (about 60 pages, PDF file) available at:
http://www.markwatson.com/opencontent/
The title is "Loving Lisp, or the Savvy Programmer's Secret Weapon"
 
- Have you developed or participated in the development of any
 Lisp-related programs or libraries? If so, please supply a URL,
 if possible.
 
I have a commecial product KBtextmaster that is written in Common Lisp.
 
- Lisp variants you have used (e.g. Common Lisp, Scheme, Dylan):
 
Common Lisp, Scheme
 
- 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):
 
LispWorks, Franz, CLisp, OpenMCL
 
- Lisp implementations you're currently using or intend to use
 in the near future:
 
LispWorks, Franz, CLisp, OpenMCL
 
- Computer platforms on which you're using or deploying Lisp:
 
I use Mac OS X for ll development, with runtimes for Linux and Windows 2000/XP
 
- Number of years of experience with Lisp:
 
over 22 years
 
- Experience with other programming languages (please supply the
 number of years and the name of the language):
 
C++ (since 1988), Java (since 1996), FORTRAN (since 1965), etc.
 
- Total number of years of programming experience:
 
Started as a child in 1962 (?) - my father arranged access to a Basic
timesharing system
 
- Do you use Lisp:
 - at work (if so, how much) - yes, about 5%
 - for study (if so, how much) - yes, about 20%
 - as a hobby (if so, how much) - yes, about 25%
 
- Are you using Lisp as much as you would like to?
 If not, why not?
 
No. My customers want everything done in Java
 
- Do you see any obstacles to further Lisp growth (if so, what
 is the biggest obstacle in your opinion)?
 
1. lack of web services support (SOAP, WSDL, etc.) on all platforms but Franz
 
- Would you be interested in a Lisp-related job or contract work?
 
yes
 
- Is your organization interested in hiring Lisp programmers?
 
no - I am a one man consulting shop
 
- Are you currently participating in Lisp-related meetings?
 If so, where and how often?
 If not, would you be interested in such meetings?
 
no
 
- Do you know any other Lispers who might be willing to fill in
 this questionnaire (please supply their names and email-addresses
 if you do)?
 
- Do you know people who may be interested in learning Lisp
 (please supply their names and email-addresses if you do)?