ÿ- First name: Pascal 
  
- Last name: Costanza 
  
- Email address: REMOVED
  
- Home page: http://www.pascalcostanza.de 
  
- Postal code: D-53111 
  
- City: Bonn 
  
- Country: Germany 
  
- Organization(s) you work for or study at 
  (please supply the name and city for each organization): 
  
University of Bonn, Institute of Computer Science III, Germany 
  
- Fields of interest 
  (e.g. computer linguistics, numerical analysis, business software, 
  medicine, bioinformatics): 
  
Programming language design, object-oriented programming, aspect-oriented 
programming, multi-paradigm programming, dynamic software evolution, 
context-oriented programming 
  
- Have you written any Lisp-related papers? If so, please supply 
  bibliographical references (and URL's, if possible). 
  
Pascal Costanza, Highly Opinionated Guide to Lisp, http://www.pascalcostanza.de/lisp/guide.html 
  
Pascal Costanza, Dynamically Scoped Functions as the Essence of AOP, 
ECOOP 2003 Workshop on Object-Oriented Language Engineering for the 
Post-Java Era, Darmstadt, Germany, July 22, 2003; published in ACM 
SIGPLAN Notices Volume 38, Issue 8 (August 2003), ACM Press, http://www.pascalcostanza.de/dynfun.pdf,http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/944579.944587 
  
  
- Have you developed or participated in the development of any 
  Lisp-related programs or libraries? If so, please supply a URL, 
  if possible. 
  
AspectL, http://www.common-lisp.net/project/aspectl/ 
  
and a few minor other things that I intend to publish in the 
future, some of which can be tracked down at c.l.l 
  
- Lisp variants you have used (e.g. Common Lisp, Scheme, Dylan): 
  
Common Lisp, a little bit of 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): 
  
Macintosh Common Lisp, LispWorks for Macintosh 
  
- Lisp implementations you're currently using or intend to use 
  in the near future: 
  
LispWorks for Macintosh, SBCL, OpenMCL, Macintosh Common Lisp, Allegro Common Lisp 
  
- Computer platforms on which you're using or deploying Lisp: 
  
Mac OS X 
  
- Number of years of experience with Lisp: 
  
2 
  
- Do you use Lisp: 
  - at work (if so, how much) 
  
yes, not as much as I would like to, but things are improving 
  
  - for study (if so, how much) 
  
yes, almost exclusively 
  
  - as a hobby (if so, how much) 
  
my work is my hobby 
  
- Are you using Lisp as much as you would like to? 
  If not, why not? 
  
No, because of hangovers from my Java past 
  
- Do you see any obstacles to further Lisp growth (if so, what 
  is the biggest obstacle in your opinion)? 
  
There is no biggest obstacle. A biggest obstacle would mean that 
there would also be a single cure. Communities don't work like that, 
however. It's more of a chicken-and-egg problem: The more people we 
have the more people we can attract. 
  
A big obstacle within the Lisp community is the fact that we seem 
to have too many right-thing thinkers, whereas it would be more 
healthy to stress the diversity that Lisp allows us to have. 
Everyone can contribute something, and we shouldn't judge people by 
the quality or quantity of their contribution. A big obstacle outside 
of the Lisp community is the fact that people don't understand 
metacircularity (code = data). 
  
- Would you be interested in a Lisp-related job or contract work? 
  
maybe 
  
- Is your organization interested in hiring Lisp programmers? 
  
no 
  
- Are you currently participating in Lisp-related meetings? 
  If so, where and how often? 
  If not, would you be interested in such meetings? 
  
Yes, in Cologne and Amsterdam and most likely in Hamburg as well. I 
have also organized the Lisp workshop in Oslo and intend to organize 
follow-up workshops in the future.