- First name: 
Sunil 
  
- Last name: 
Mishra 
  
- Email address: 
REMOVED
  
- Home page: 
http://www.mono-picante.org/ 
  
- Phone number(s): 
415-621-7349 
  
- Postal code: 
94103 
  
- City: 
San Francisco 
  
- Country: 
USA 
  
- Organization(s) you work for or study at 
  (please supply the name and city for each organization): 
SRI International, Menlo Park, CA 
  
- Fields of interest 
  (e.g. computer linguistics, numerical analysis, business software, 
   medicine, bioinformatics): 
Knowledge representation and reasoning 
  
- Have you written any Lisp-related papers? If so, please supply 
  bibliographical references (and URL's, if possible). 
  
Mishra, S. and Rodriguez, A. and Eriksen, M. and Chaudhri, V. and 
Lowrance, J. and Murray, K. and Thomere, J. Lightweight solutions for 
user interfaces over the WWW, in Proceedings of the International Lisp 
Conference, 2002. 
  
- Have you developed or participated in the development of any 
  Lisp-related programs or libraries? If so, please supply a URL, 
  if possible. 
  
See my home page. 
  
- Lisp variants you have used (e.g. Common Lisp, Scheme, Dylan): 
  
Common Lisp 
  
- Lisp variants you're currently using or intend to use in the 
  near future: 
  
Common Lisp, well, whatever I need to. 
  
- Lisp implementations you have used 
  (e.g. CMUCL, Lispworks, Allegro Common Lisp): 
CMUCL, Lispworks, Allegro CL, MCL, SBCL, XLispStat, CLisp 
  
- Lisp implementations you're currently using or intend to use 
  in the near future: 
CMUCL, Allegro CL. 
  
- Computer platforms on which you're using or deploying Lisp: 
Mac, PC, Solaris, Linux. 
  
- Number of years of experience with Lisp: 
12 
  
- Do you use Lisp: 
  - at work (if so, how much) 
  - for study (if so, how much) 
  - as a hobby (if so, how much) 
About half my time is spent programming lisp for work. 
I spend a few hours a week hacking on my own. 
  
- Are you using Lisp as much as you would like to? 
  If not, why not? 
Yes. 
  
- Do you see any obstacles to further Lisp growth (if so, what 
  is the biggest obstacle in your opinion)? 
Parity with other languages to exploit modern hardware and computing 
environments, particularly with respect to distributed computing. 
  
- Would you be interested in a Lisp-related job or contract work? 
Already have one. 
  
- Is your organization interested in hiring Lisp programmers? 
Yes, but it would be very helpful to us if they had at the very least 
a strong interest in AI or related fields. 
  
- Are you currently participating in Lisp-related meetings? 
  If so, where and how often? 
  If not, would you be interested in such meetings? 
The Bay area Lispniks. 
I run a little group here at work.