- First name: mikel 
  
- Last name: evins 
  
- Email address: REMOVED
  
- Phone number(s): 831-475-6476 
  
- Postal code: 95062 
  
- City: Santa Cruz 
  
- State or province: California 	
  
- Country: USA 
  
- Organization(s) you work for or study at 
 (please supply the name and city for each organization): 
  
Reactivity, Inc. 
Belmont, CA 
  
  
- Fields of interest 
 (e.g. computer linguistics, numerical analysis, business software, 
  medicine, bioinformatics): 
  
Compilers, editors, functional programming, application frameworks, games 
  
  
- Have you written any Lisp-related papers? If so, please supply 
 bibliographical references (and URL's, if possible). 
  
- Have you developed or participated in the development of any 
 Lisp-related programs or libraries? If so, please supply a URL, 
 if possible. 
  
GATE (a knowledge-based testing tool developed at Apple in the late 80s and early 90s) 
  
Bauhaus (a version of Apple's Newton OS written in Dylan -- 
http://monday.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/AppleDylanEulogy) 
  
SK8 (http://developer.apple.com/devnews/devnews071197.html#tool) 
  
Alpaca (http://common-lisp.net/project/alpaca/) 
  
Clotho and Bosco (http://www.common-lisp.net/project/clotho/) 
  
Hansa2 (http://hansa.sourceforge.net/) 
  
  
- Lisp variants you have used (e.g. Common Lisp, Scheme, Dylan): 
  
Common Lisp 
Scheme 
Dylan 
  
  
- Lisp variants you're currently using or intend to use in the 
 near future: 
  
Common Lisp 
Scheme 
  
  
- Lisp implementations you have used 
 (e.g. CMUCL, Lispworks, Allegro Common Lisp): 
  
MacScheme 
Macintosh Common Lisp 
Elk Scheme 
XLisp 
XScheme 
Gambit Scheme 
Lucid Common Lisp 
Allegro Common Lisp 
Chicken Scheme 
Guile 
Chez Scheme 
RScheme 
Scsh 
CMUCL 
SBCL 
OpenMCL 
Bigloo Scheme 
GCL 
ECL 
Kawa 
Sisc 
  
  
- Lisp implementations you're currently using or intend to use 
 in the near future: 
  
OpenMCL 
Allegro Common Lisp 
SBCL 
Chicken Scheme 
Gambit Scheme 
Kawa 
Sisc 
  
  
- Computer platforms on which you're using or deploying Lisp: 
  
Mac OS X 
Linux x86 
Windows 2000 
Windows XP 
  
  
- Number of years of experience with Lisp: 16 
  
- Experience with other programming languages (please supply the 
 number of years and the name of the language): 
  
BASIC (20) 
FORTRAN (20) 
6502 Assembler (17) 
C (17) 
FORTH (17) 
Pascal (17) 
Smalltalk (16) 
Prolog (16) 
Objective C (12) 
C++ (12) 
ML (10) 
Python (6) 
  
  
- Total number of years of programming experience: 
20 
  
- Do you use Lisp: 
 - at work (if so, how much) 
Yes, moderately, for tools development 
 - for study (if so, how much) 
Yes, daily 
 - as a hobby (if so, how much) 
Yes, daily 
  
- Are you using Lisp as much as you would like to? No 
 If not, why not? 
  
Much of my job requires the use of other programming languages. In 
former jobs I had the opportunity to do all my work in Lisp. 
  
  
  
- Do you see any obstacles to further Lisp growth (if so, what 
 is the biggest obstacle in your opinion)? 
  
The biggest obstacle is the widespread (but erroneous) perception that 
Lisp is not suited to general-purpose application development. 
  
The next biggest obstacle is that it's too difficult for beginning 
Lispers to start building and deploying the kinds of programs they 
would like to develop. 
  
  
- 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? 
  
Yes. 
  
 If so, where and how often? 
  
In the San Francisco Bay area; infrequently 
  
 If not, would you be interested in such meetings? 
  
Yes. 
  
  
- 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)?