- First name: Thibault
- Last name: Langlois
- Email address: REMOVED
- Phone number(s): +351 217 500 126
- Postal code: 1749-016
- City: Lisbon
- State or province:
- Country: Portugal
- Organization(s) you work for or study at
  (please supply the name and city for each organization):
Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa
Depatamento de Informática.
 
- Fields of interest
  (e.g. computer linguistics, numerical analysis, business software,
   medicine, bioinformatics):
  Machine Learning, Data Mining, Bioinformatics, Teaching how to program

- Have you written any Lisp-related papers? If so, please supply
  bibliographical references (and URL's, if possible).
All programing  work involved in my publications is made using Common Lisp. 
But I never wrote a paper about Lisp. The answer is : none.
 
- Have you developed or participated in the development of any
  Lisp-related programs or libraries? If so, please supply a URL,
  if possible.
There are a few demos here:
http://di.fc.ul.pt/~tl/
 
- Lisp variants you have used (e.g. Common Lisp, Scheme, Dylan):
Acorn Lisp, LeLisp (a very long time ago), Symbolics Common Lisp a long
time ago. Now: Common Lisp. 
 
- 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):
acl 5.0, clisp, cmucl, LispWorks 
 
- Lisp implementations you're currently using or intend to use
  in the near future:
cmucl, clisp, LispWorks
 
- Computer platforms on which you're using or deploying Lisp:
GNU Linux/Intel x86 based computers.
 
- Number of years of experience with Lisp:
16 years.
 
- Experience with other programming languages (please supply the
  number of years and the name of the language):
C: 12 years
C++: 8 years
Forth: 3 years
Postscript: 4 years
Java: 1 year
 
- Total number of years of programming experience:
16 years 

- Do you use Lisp:
- at work (if so, how much)
For everything I have to program. Every day.
 
- for study (if so, how much)
daily. 
- as a hobby (if so, how much)
daily

- 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)?
 
Unfortunately Lisp is often considered as an "old" language, 
people are interested in "new" things. 
 
- Would you be interested in a Lisp-related job or contract work?
Yes.
 
- Is your organization interested in hiring Lisp programmers?
No.
 
- Are you currently participating in Lisp-related meetings?
  If so, where and how often?
No. 
 
  If not, would you be interested in such meetings?
Yes !