- First name: 
  
Dave 
  
- Last name: 
  
Fox 
  
- Email address: 
  
REMOVED
  
- Home page: 
  
http://www.lispworks.com/ 
  
- Phone number(s): 
  
- Postal code: 
  
CB4 9AD 
  
- City: 
  
Cambridge 
  
- Country: 
  
UK 
  
- Organization(s) you work for or study at 
  (please supply the name and city for each organization): 
  
Xanalys 
  
- Fields of interest 
  (e.g. computer linguistics, numerical analysis, business software, 
  medicine, bioinformatics): 
  
Common Lisp. 
  
- Have you written any Lisp-related papers? If so, please supply 
  bibliographical references (and URL's, if possible). 
  
No. 
  
- Have you developed or participated in the development of any 
  Lisp-related programs or libraries? If so, please supply a URL, 
  if possible. 
  
Implementation of LispWorks and Liquid Common Lisp. 
Some changes to libraries such as ilisp to improve them on LispWorks. 
  
- Lisp variants you have used (e.g. Common Lisp, Scheme, Dylan): 
  
Common Lisp, GNU Emacs Lisp 
  
- Lisp variants you're currently using or intend to use in the 
  near future: 
  
Common Lisp, GNU Emacs Lisp 
  
- Lisp implementations you have used 
  (e.g. CMUCL, Lispworks, Allegro Common Lisp): 
  
LispWorks, MCL, Liquid Common Lisp, GNU Emacs Lisp 
  
- Lisp implementations you're currently using or intend to use 
  in the near future: 
  
LispWorks, Liquid Common Lisp, GNU Emacs Lisp 
  
- Computer platforms on which you're using or deploying Lisp: 
  
Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, Solaris, HP-UX, Tru64 UNIX, AIX, IRIX. 
  
- Number of years of experience with Lisp: 
  
10 
  
- Do you use Lisp: 
  - at work (if so, how much) 
75% 
  - for study (if so, how much) 
0 
  - as a hobby (if so, how much) 
5% 
  
- 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)? 
  
Relatively small base of competent Lisp programmers (or just the 
perception of this!) 
  
- Would you be interested in a Lisp-related job or contract work? 
  
Got one already, thanks :) 
  
- Is your organization interested in hiring Lisp programmers? 
  
Not at the time of writing. 
  
- Are you currently participating in Lisp-related meetings? 
  
Attended two informal (OK, in the pub) meetings following announcments 
on comp.lang.lisp. Great to meet a few customers face to face. 
  
  If so, where and how often? 
  
Twice in Cambridge in 2003. 
  
  If not, would you be interested in such meetings? 
  
Yes.