- First name: 
  
Sven 
  
- Last name: 
  
Van Caekenberghe 
  
- Email address: 
  
REMOVED
  
- Home page: 
  
http://homepage.mac.com/svc 
  
- Phone number(s): 
  
+ 32 (0) 11 21 31 92 
  
- Postal code: 
  
B-3500 
  
- City: 
  
Hasselt 
  
- Country: 
  
Belgium 
  
- Organization(s) you work for or study at 
  (please supply the name and city for each organization): 
  
Beta Nine BVBA [ http://www.beta9.be ] 
  
- Fields of interest 
  (e.g. computer linguistics, numerical analysis, business software, 
  medicine, bioinformatics): 
  
Web Applications, Network Communication Protocols, Application Servers, 
Databases, Distributed Computing, Computer Languages, Programming 
Environments 
  
- Have you written any Lisp-related papers? If so, please supply 
  bibliographical references (and URL's, if possible). 
  
Rebel With A Cause (Building Web Applications with Common Lisp; 
Deploying on an Apple Xserve running Mac OS X Server) 
http://homepage.mac.com/svc/RebelWithACause/ 
  
- Have you developed or participated in the development of any 
  Lisp-related programs or libraries? If so, please supply a URL, 
  if possible. 
  
A Simple XML Parser for Common Lisp [ http://homepage.mac.com/svc/xml/readme.html 
], now called S-XML [ http://common-lisp.net/project/s-xml ] 
  
XML-RPC for OpenMCL (CL) [ http://homepage.mac.com/svc/xml-rpc/readme.html 
], now called S-XML-RPC [ http://common-lisp.net/project/s-xml-rpc ] 
  
Common Lisp Prevalence [ http://homepage.mac.com/svc/prevalence/readme.html 
] 
  
KPAX, a Common Lisp Web Application Framework [ http://homepage.mac.com/svc/kpax/readme.html 
] 
  
- Lisp variants you have used (e.g. Common Lisp, Scheme, Dylan): 
  
  Common Lisp, Scheme 
  
- Lisp variants you're currently using or intend to use in the 
  near future: 
  
Common Lisp 
  
- Lisp implementations you have used 
  (e.g. CMUCL, Lispworks, Allegro Common Lisp): 
  
Macintosh Common Lisp, Symbolics Genera, LispWorks, Lucid Common Lisp, 
Kyoto Common Lisp 
  
- Lisp implementations you're currently using or intend to use 
  in the near future: 
  
LispWorks for Macintosh, OpenMCL 
  
- Computer platforms on which you're using or deploying Lisp: 
  
Mac OS X, Mac OS X Server, Linux 
  
- Number of years of experience with Lisp: 
  
3 years (university years and shortly thereafter) 
(some C++, Smalltalk and Java in between) 
3 years (recently) 
  
- Do you use Lisp: 
  
  - at work (if so, how much) 
  
For 90% of my professional programming activities 
  
  - for study (if so, how much) 
  - as a hobby (if so, how much) 
  
For 90% of my open-source programming, learning all the time 
  
- Are you using Lisp as much as you would like to? 
  If not, why not? 
  
I am happy right now, would like to make more money using Lisp 
  
- Do you see any obstacles to further Lisp growth (if so, what 
  is the biggest obstacle in your opinion)? 
  
There is currently some kind of a Lisp revival, as a niche language 
Lisp is doing fine. 
  
- Would you be interested in a Lisp-related job or contract work? 
  
Yes, through my company, Beta Nine BVBA 
  
- Is your organization interested in hiring Lisp programmers? 
  
Maybe in the future. 
  
- Are you currently participating in Lisp-related meetings? 
  
No 
  
  If so, where and how often? 
  If not, would you be interested in such meetings? 
  
The internet is an excellent tool for collaboration as it is. 
But maybe one day I might attend a conference.