- First name: Sheldon 
  
  - Last name: Ball 
  
  - Email address: REMOVED
  
  - Home page: www.anvita.info 
  
  - Phone number(s): (310) 824-5941 
  
  - Postal code: 90024 
  
  - City: Los Angeles 
  
  - Country: USA 
  
  - Organization(s) you work for or study at 
  (please supply the name and city for each organization): 
  Anvita eReference LLC, Portland, OR 
  Veterans Administration, Los Angeles, CA 
  
  
  
  - Fields of interest 
  (e.g. computer linguistics, numerical analysis, business software, 
  medicine, bioinformatics): 
  medicine, bioinformatics 
  
  
  
  - Have you written any Lisp-related papers? If so, please supply 
  bibliographical references (and URL's, if possible). 
  
  Ball SS.  Mah VH.  SENEX: CLOS in molecular pathology. Uncertainty, 
generalization, and the comparison of objects.  In: Proceedings of the 
4th Annual Lisp Users and Vendors Conference, August 15-19,  
Berkeley,  CA, 1994 
  
  
  
  - Have you developed or participated in the development of any 
  Lisp-related programs or libraries? If so, please supply a URL, 
  if possible. 

Anvita eReference: Integrating Science and Medicine 
http://www.anvita.info 
  
  
  
  - Lisp variants you have used (e.g. Common Lisp, Scheme, Dylan): 
  Common Lisp, Common Lisp Interface Manager (CLIM) 
  
  
  
  - Lisp variants you're currently using or intend to use in the 
  near future: 
  same 
  
  
  
  - Lisp implementations you have used 
  (e.g. CMUCL, Lispworks, Allegro Common Lisp): 
  MCL, Lispworks, Lucid 
  
  
  
  - Lisp implementations you're currently using or intend to use 
  in the near future: 
  
  MCL, Lispworks 
  
  
  
  - Computer platforms on which you're using or deploying Lisp: 
  
  Macintosh, Windows 
  
  
  
  - Number of years of experience with Lisp:   16 
  
  
  - Do you use Lisp: 
  - at work (if so, how much)   
4-12 hours/day 
  - for study (if so, how much) 
  - as a hobby (if so, how much) 
  
  - Are you using Lisp as much as you would like to? 
yes 
  If not, why not? 
  
  - Do you see any obstacles to further Lisp growth (if so, what 
  is the biggest obstacle in your opinion)? 
misconceptions 
  
  - Would you be interested in a Lisp-related job or contract work? 
I have a job 
  
  
  
  - Is your organization interested in hiring Lisp programmers? 
yes, if our application for SBIR funding is successful, 
we will be looking for 1 Lisp/CLIM programmer 
if not, we will consider small pieces of contract work 
  
  
  
  - 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