- First name: 
Stephen 
  
- Last name: 
Jones 
  
- Email address: 
  
- Phone number(s): 
  
- Postal code: 
98122 
  
- City: 
Seattle 
  
- State or province: 
WA 
  
- Country: 
USA 
  
- Organization(s) you work for or study at 
  (please supply the name and city for each organization): 
SDF Public Access UNIX System, INC 501(c)(7) Dallas, TX 
  
- Fields of interest 
  (e.g. computer linguistics, numerical analysis, business software, 
   medicine, bioinformatics): 
Music, relays, discrete components, computer generated music 
  
- Have you written any Lisp-related papers? If so, please supply 
  bibliographical references (and URL's, if possible). 
None 
  
- Have you developed or participated in the development of any 
  Lisp-related programs or libraries? If so, please supply a URL, 
  if possible. 
Yes 
  
- Lisp variants you have used (e.g. Common Lisp, Scheme, Dylan): 
ZetaLISP/Common LISP, MACLISP 
  
- Lisp variants you're currently using or intend to use in the 
  near future: 
ZetaLISP/Common LISP, MACLISP 
  
- Lisp implementations you have used 
  (e.g. CMUCL, Lispworks, Allegro Common Lisp): 
TOPS-20 MACLISP, INTERLISP-10, Symbolics GENERA 
  
- Lisp implementations you're currently using or intend to use 
  in the near future: 
TOPS-20 MACLISP, INTERLISP-10, Symbolics GENERA 
  
- Computer platforms on which you're using or deploying Lisp: 
KLH KL10B, Symbolics XL1200, Dec ALPHA 264DP 
  
- Number of years of experience with Lisp: 
12 years 
  
- Experience with other programming languages (please supply the 
  number of years and the name of the language): 
IBM BASIC, C, ksh, sed, awk, python .. probably non-interesting. 
  
- Total number of years of programming experience: 
24 years 
  
- Do you use Lisp: 
  - at work (if so, how much) 
Yes, less than 5% .. more if I can. 
  
  - for study (if so, how much) 
0% 
  - as a hobby (if so, how much) 
0% 
  
- Are you using Lisp as much as you would like to? 
  If not, why not? 
My primary platform is NetBSD ALPHA which unfortunately does not 
have a usable LISP system .. That being said, I do have access to 
OPENLISP, but lack of documentation is preventing me from using it. 
  
- Do you see any obstacles to further Lisp growth (if so, what 
  is the biggest obstacle in your opinion)? 
Education.  Corporations dump lots of money into schools brainwashing 
young people into believing that problems should be approached a 
certain way.  There are so many people pouring out of schools (and have 
been) with very limited programming skills focused almost entirely on 
visual C++, Java and Visual Basic.  Pay for programmers will continue to 
be devalued as outsourcing increases where concepts for products are 
basically farmed out to a group of 10, 20 or 30 'code harvesters' who use languages 
like C++, Java and Visual Basic because when they went to school they were 
told that is what they had to learn if they wanted a job on the farm 
paying 50 cents an hour. 
  
- Would you be interested in a Lisp-related job or contract work? 
Yes 
  
- Is your organization interested in hiring Lisp programmers? 
As contract work, yes.  We have several projects that might be attractive to 
LISP programmers who want to educate young people.  Projects would range 
from UNIX shell level utilities and games, to web applications.  We're looking for 
LISP programmers with creativity and the desire to write multiuser interactive utilities 
and games.  See ascii-games.org for a rough idea. 
  
- Are you currently participating in Lisp-related meetings? 
ALU, local SEALUG (Seattle Lisp User's Group) 
  
  If so, where and how often? 
SEALUG meets at least once a quarter, usually for DIM SUM 
  
  If not, would you be interested in such meetings?