- First name: 	
Rahul 
- Last name:
Nair 
- Email address:
REMOVED
- Home page:
http://blufox.batcave.net 
- Phone number(s): 
091 - 9845241239 
- Postal code: 	
- City:
Bangalore 
- Country:
India 
- Organization(s) you work for or study at 
 (please supply the name and city for each organization): 			
SunMicrosystems  Bangalore 
- Fields of interest 
 (e.g. computer linguistics, numerical analysis, business software, medicine, bioinformatics):
Language Design, Business Software, Scripting (Embedded Language) 

- Have you written any Lisp-related papers? If so, please supply 
 bibliographical references (and URL's, if possible). 
Nil 
  
- Have you developed or participated in the development of any 
 Lisp-related programs or libraries? If so, please supply a URL, 
 if possible.
http://blufox.batcave.net/projects.html [mod_scheme for apache] 
  
- Lisp variants you have used (e.g. Common Lisp, Scheme, Dylan): 
Scheme,  Common Lisp, Jscheme 
  
- Lisp variants you're currently using or intend to use in the 
 near future:
Jscheme, Scheme 
  
- Lisp implementations you have used 
 (e.g. CMUCL, Lispworks, Allegro Common Lisp):
TinyScheme, PLT Scheme, GCL 
  
- Lisp implementations you're currently using or intend to use 
 in the near future:
TinyScheme, PLT Scheme, GCL 
 
- Computer platforms on which you're using or deploying Lisp: 			
FreeBSD,  Solaris, Win32 
  
- Number of years of experience with Lisp: 
4 

- Do you use Lisp: 
	at work (if so, how much) 				
Jscheme as an embedded shell, and to  prototype quickly. 
	for study (if so, how much) 			
Use it to Study Language design, 
	as a hobby (if so, how much) 							
Use it as one of the dominant  languages in hobby programs. 
  
- Are you using Lisp as much as you would like to? 
Not as much I would  like to use it more at work 
- If not, why not? 				
Existing impelementations in c/++ and java  
/ very few people to understand/maintain 
  
- Do you see any obstacles to further Lisp growth
a *single*  *dominant* *open* implementation for multiple 
libraries documentatios and examples and premade scripts 
Regarding scheme, It is time for another Revision there
  
- Would you be interested in a Lisp-related job or contract work? 	
Yes 
  
- Is your organization interested in hiring Lisp programmers?
Dont  know. 
  
- Are you currently participating in Lisp-related meetings?
Only  mailing lists 
Since there are few lisp  programmers in my locality 
   If so, where and how often? 				
   If not, would you be interested in such meetings?
yes