> - First name: 
  
Pierre-François 
  
> - Last name: 
  
Gomez 
  
> - Email address: 
  
REMOVED
  
> - ADDED: gpg key id (hope this is relevant): 
  
0x680240C8 
  
> - Home page: 
  
none for now. 
  
> - Phone number(s): 
  
+33 660 19 39 98 
  
> - Postal code: 
  
33127 
  
> - City: 
  
Saint Jean d'Illac (a few kilometers outside of Bordeaux) 
  
> - Country: 
  
France 
  
> - Organization(s) you work for or study at 
>   (please supply the name and city for each organization): 
  
none (un-employed) 
Thinking hard about starting a company. 
  
> - Fields of interest 
>   (e.g. computer linguistics, numerical analysis, business software, 
>   medicine, bioinformatics): 
  
Programming, free softwares, home automation 
  
> - 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. 
  
no 
  
> - Lisp variants you have used (e.g. Common Lisp, Scheme, Dylan): 
  
Mainly Common Lisp, some Emacs Lisp 
  
> - Lisp variants you're currently using or intend to use in the 
>   near future: 
  
I'm currently using Common Lisp. 
I plan on looking at Scheme. 
  
> - Lisp implementations you have used 
>   (e.g. CMUCL, Lispworks, Allegro Common Lisp): 
  
SBCL 
  
> - Lisp implementations you're currently using or intend to use 
>   in the near future: 
  
I'm currently using SBCL. 
I plan on having a look at CLisp, GCL and CMUCL when i am more 
proficient with SBCL. 
I'll probably use one of (or both) Lispworks or ACL, too. 
  
> - Computer platforms on which you're using or deploying Lisp: 
  
x86 with GNU/Linux 
  
> - Number of years of experience with Lisp: 
  
about 0.75 year (that is, about 9 months) :) 
  
>   ADDED: ... or estimated starting date (so that the number of year 
>   can be deduced) 
  
I started using CL seriously during October 2003 
  
> - Do you use Lisp: 
>   - at work (if so, how much) 
  
no 
  
>   - for study (if so, how much) 
  
no 
  
>   - as a hobby (if so, how much) 
  
yes, 7-10 hours a week 
  
> - Are you using Lisp as much as you would like to? 
>   If not, why not? 
  
No. I often have to write applications where no Lisp is available. 
Also, i have very little experience in this language and this mere fact 
really doesn't help convincing people... 
  
Finally, for some reason, they can't grasp that the number of 
programmers knowing a language has nothing to do with this language's 
capabilities. 
  
> - Do you see any obstacles to further Lisp growth (if so, what 
>   is the biggest obstacle in your opinion)? 
  
None that i can think of, no. I am a deep follower of the 'slowly, but 
surely' credo (aka 'rome has not been built in one day'). 
  
> - Would you be interested in a Lisp-related job or contract work? 
  
Sure i would ! :) Especially contract works, actually. 
  
> - Is your organization interested in hiring Lisp programmers? 
  
Not yet :) 
  
> - Are you currently participating in Lisp-related meetings? 
>   If so, where and how often? 
>   If not, would you be interested in such meetings? 
  
No, but i'd be greatly interested. 
  
> - Do you know any other Lispers who might be willing to fill in 
>   this questionnaire (please supply their email-address if you 
>   do)? 
  
Yes, i already forwarded it to him. 
  
> --------------- End of Lisp Users Questionnaire ---------------------- 
  
Thanks for this future tool. 
  
Reading c.l.l and several other sources, i've came up with the same 
impression that the Lisp community is rapidly growing, despite my fairly 
new history in this field of computing. 
  
I'm annoyed by the fact that i can't mesure this growth, though, but 
this future database hopefully will allow me to prove this impression 
(hence the question i added about "when i started" using a Lisp, as 
opposed to "how long").