- First name: Svein Ove 
  
- Last name: Aas 
  
- Email address: REMOVED
  
- Home page: http://svein.brage.info, sorta. Nothing there, really. 
  
- Phone number(s): Available at request. 
  
- Postal code: 9020 
  
- City: Tromsų 
  
- Country: Norway 
  
- Organization(s) you work for or study at: 
University of Tromsų, college of physical sciences or something like 
that. (Realfagsfakultetet) 
  
  
- Fields of interest: 
Computer reasoning/AI in general, philosophy, cosmology, OS design would 
be the usual kind. 
Besides that, you might add literature (SF and fantasy, mostly), music 
(listening, playing and creating), hiking and tinkering. 
  
  
- Have you written any Lisp-related papers? If so, please supply 
  bibliographical references (and URL's, if possible). 
  
Nope. 
  
- Have you developed or participated in the development of any 
  Lisp-related programs or libraries? If so, please supply a URL, 
  if possible. 
  
I'm doing so right now, but it's all at a very early stage. I'm still 
at an early stage in learning Lisp, really. 
No URLs right now, sorry. 
  
  
- 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: 
I'm working on designing/writing kLisp, a kernel-mode Lisp 
VM/bytecode compiler/environment for use in a very odd kind of OS that 
doesn't exist yet. It's based on ISLISP. 
  
  
- Lisp implementations you have used 
  (e.g. CMUCL, Lispworks, Allegro Common Lisp): 
CMUCL, SBCL, ACL, CLISP. 
I've pretty much settled on SBCL. 
  
  
- Lisp implementations you're currently using or intend to use 
  in the near future: 
Corman Lisp, for Windows deployment of another Lisp app that's on the 
drawing board. 
  
  
- Computer platforms on which you're using or deploying Lisp: 
x86-Linux. x86-Windows in the future. 
  
  
- Number of years of experience with Lisp: 
Approximately 0.4. 
  
- Do you use Lisp: 
  - for study, all I can get away with it. 
  - as a hobby, always. A number of hours per day. 
  
- Are you using Lisp as much as you would like to? 
  If not, why not? 
I'd like to use it more for my studies. We're supposed to turn in all 
our projects as Java code, and I usually start by prototyping them in 
Lisp. The Lisp code is *always* smaller and more elegant, and usually 
faster. 
  
- Do you see any obstacles to further Lisp growth (if so, what 
  is the biggest obstacle in your opinion)? 
The lack of standardized network libraries and such isn't really a 
problem; no matter how many standards we'd have, there would always be 
more that wasn't covered. 
 The major issue, as I see it, is that existing libraries are easier to 
use in languages like C; it should be possible make it as easy to use 
them as it is in C itself. 
 This, of course, requires an FFI that understands C headers, and indeed 
C itself, on the source level. I'm working on just such an extension for 
SBCL. 
  
  
- Would you be interested in a Lisp-related job or contract work? 
Well, of course. Would anyone *give* me one, is the question. 
  
  
- Are you currently participating in Lisp-related meetings? 
No, because I'm not aware of any such meetings in my city, and I 
certainly can't afford travelling to one. 
 I'd jump at the opportunity to attend if one presented itself.