- First name: 
Alex 
- Last name: 
Peake 
- Email address: 
REMOVED
- Phone number(s): 
(650) 949-3523 
- Postal code: 
94022 
- City: 
LOS ALTOS 
- State or province: 
CA 
- Country: 
USA 
- Organization(s) you work for or study at 
  (please supply the name and city for each organization): 
Comac, Inc. An Iron Mountain Company - MILPITAS, CA 
- Fields of interest 
  (e.g. computer linguistics, numerical analysis, business software, 
  medicine, bioinformatics): 
Business Software, Generative Programming, Visual Programming 
- Have you written any Lisp-related papers? If so, please supply 
  bibliographical references (and URL's, if possible). 
Not published 
- Have you developed or participated in the development of any 
  Lisp-related programs or libraries? If so, please supply a URL, 
  if possible. 
Business software system generator - not published 
- 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: 
Scheme, Common Lisp 
- Lisp implementations you have used 
  (e.g. CMUCL, Lispworks, Allegro Common Lisp): 
Allegro, Lispworks, PLT Scheme 
- Lisp implementations you're currently using or intend to use 
  in the near future: 
PLT Scheme, Lispworks 
- Computer platforms on which you're using or deploying Lisp: 
Windows 
- Number of years of experience with Lisp: 
5 
- Experience with other programming languages (please supply the 
  number of years and the name of the language): 
Basic - 10 
Visual Basic - 12 
Smalltalk - 5 
C - 15 
C++ - 3 
C# - 3 
Prolog - 4 
Erlang - 4 
Oz (Mozart) - 1 
ML - 1 
Haskell - 1 
Expert Systems - 3 
SQLWindows - 13 
PL/SQL - 7 
TSQL - 5 
- Total number of years of programming experience: 
32 
- Do you use Lisp: 
  - at work (if so, how much) 
  - for study (if so, how much) 
  - as a hobby (if so, how much) 
At work - 15% - build and maintain (C#, VB, SQL, ...) code generator 
Building visual programming environment 
- Are you using Lisp as much as you would like to? 
  If not, why not? 
No. No acceptable implementation (Price vs. Capability for Business applications) 
- Do you see any obstacles to further Lisp growth (if so, what 
  is the biggest obstacle in your opinion)? 
Yes. No acceptable implementation (Price vs. Capability for Business applications). 
- Would you be interested in a Lisp-related job or contract work? 
Maybe. 
- Is your organization interested in hiring Lisp programmers? 
Maybe. 
- Are you currently participating in Lisp-related meetings? 
  If so, where and how often? 
  If not, would you be interested in such meetings? 
There is a group locally that I have never been able to make a meeting with.