> - First name: 
  
Martin 
  
> - Last name: 
  
Rydström 
  
> - Email address: 
  
REMOVED
  
> - Home page: 
  
http://www.cd.chalmers.se/~rydis/ 
  
> - Phone number(s): 
  
I'd prefer not to have it published
  
> - Postal code: 
  
SE-417 21 
  
> - City: 
  
Gothenburg/Göteborg 
  
> - Country: 
  
Sweden 
  
> - Organization(s) you work for or study at 
>  (please supply the name and city for each organization): 
  
No longer a student, occasionally consulting, mostly unemployed. 
  
> - Fields of interest 
>  (e.g. computer linguistics, numerical analysis, business software, 
>   medicine, bioinformatics): 
  
I'm interested in HCI and UI-things, but I don't know much about it, 
especially not about Lisp-based UI libraries. 
  
I do systems administration, on unix(-like) systems, mostly. 
  
> - 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. 
  
Nothing finished or useful. 
  
> - Lisp variants you have used (e.g. Common Lisp, Scheme, Dylan): 
  
Common Lisp, Scheme, Emacs Lisp 
  
> - Lisp variants you're currently using or intend to use in the 
>  near future: 
  
Common Lisp, Emacs Lisp 
  
> - Lisp implementations you have used 
>  (e.g. CMUCL, Lispworks, Allegro Common Lisp): 
  
CMUCL, SBCL, some testing with (Lispworks and Allegro) trial editions, 
very little testing with GCL, Poplog CL, Corman CL, and clisp. 
  
> - Lisp implementations you're currently using or intend to use 
>  in the near future: 
  
CMUCL, SBCL. 
  
> - Computer platforms on which you're using or deploying Lisp: 
  
Linux/x86 (Debian, RHEL), FreeBSD/x86, Solaris/SPARC. 
  
> - Number of years of experience with Lisp: 
  
7 
  
> - Do you use Lisp: 
>  - at work (if so, how much) 
  
Yes, some, hacking Emacs-related stuff as a consultant. 
  
>  - for study (if so, how much) 
  
No, not currently a student. 
  
>  - as a hobby (if so, how much) 
  
Yes, for most of the programming I do. (I pretty much only do CL and 
sh programming "as a hobby".) 
  
> - Are you using Lisp as much as you would like to? 
  
Not really. 
  
>  If not, why not? 
  
I'm lazy, and don't program enough unless employed to do that. 
(To rephrase: the suckiness of available free software in the 
areas I'm interested in isn't quite sufficient to get me to write 
something that does what I want, usually.) 
  
> - Do you see any obstacles to further Lisp growth (if so, what 
>  is the biggest obstacle in your opinion)? 
  
Reluctance of "newbies" to use non-standard/non-portable libraries 
or implementation-dependant features. 
  
> - 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? 
  
No. 
  
>  If so, where and how often? 
>  If not, would you be interested in such meetings? 
  
Yes.