- First name: Ingvar 
  
- Last name: Mattsson 
  
- Email address: REMOVED
  
- Home page: http://www.hexapodia.net/~ingvar/ 
  
- Phone number(s): N/A 
  
- Postal code: N/A 
  
- City: London 
  
- Country: United Kingdom 
  
- Organization(s) you work for or study at 
  (please supply the name and city for each organization): 
  
Mistral Internet Services, London office 
  
- Fields of interest 
  (e.g. computer linguistics, numerical analysis, business software, 
  medicine, bioinformatics): 
  
- Have you written any Lisp-related papers? If so, please supply 
  bibliographical references (and URL's, if possible). 
  
- Have you developed or participated in the development of any 
  Lisp-related programs or libraries? If so, please supply a URL, 
  if possible. 
  
- Lisp variants you have used (e.g. Common Lisp, Scheme, Dylan): 
  
Common Lisp, Scheme, xlisp1 (one-cell lisp, closer to CL than to Scheme, 
but still not very close) 
  
- Lisp variants you're currently using or intend to use in the 
  near future: 
  
- Lisp implementations you have used 
  (e.g. CMUCL, Lispworks, Allegro Common Lisp): 
  
CMU CL, SBCL, Allegro Common Lisp 
  
- Lisp implementations you're currently using or intend to use 
  in the near future: 
  
SBCL 
  
  
- Computer platforms on which you're using or deploying Lisp: 
  
Linux/x86 (primarily) 
HP-UX/HPPA (hopefully) 
  
- Number of years of experience with Lisp: 
  
15 (estimated) 
  
- Do you use Lisp: 
  - at work (if so, how much) 
   Yes, occasionally, for once-off data analysis 
  - for study (if so, how much) 
   No 
  - as a hobby (if so, how much) 
   Yes, estimated 3-15 hours a week 
  
- Are you using Lisp as much as you would like to? 
  If not, why not? 
About as much as I want, most of my spare-time coding is done in CL. 
  
- Do you see any obstacles to further Lisp growth (if so, what 
  is the biggest obstacle in your opinion)? 
No obvious obstacles, apart from the usual (industry inertia, not being 
"a hip" language). 
  
- Would you be interested in a Lisp-related job or contract work? 
Not as such, I prefer coding as a hobby rather than as a full-time job. 
  
- Is your organization interested in hiring Lisp programmers? 
No. 
  
- Are you currently participating in Lisp-related meetings? 
  If so, where and how often? 
  If not, would you be interested in such meetings? 
  
I try to get to the UK-Lispers pub meets, they happen irregularly (less 
often than what is possibly ideal), mostly in a London pub.