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- First name: Luke
- Last name: Gorrie
- Email address: REMOVED
- Home page: http://www.bluetail.com/~luke/
- City: Stockholm
- Country: Sweden
- Organization(s) you work for or study at
 (please supply the name and city for each organization):
Currently: Nortel Networks, in the Alteon division in Stockholm.
Soon:   Synapse Mobile Networks, also in Stockholm.

- Fields of interest
 (e.g. computer linguistics, numerical analysis, business software,
  medicine, bioinformatics):
Primarily computer networking and software development tools.
Secondarily everything else.

- Have you written any Lisp-related papers? If so, please supply
 bibliographical references (and URL's, if possible).
Distel: Distributed Emacs Lisp (for Erlang)
Proceedings of the 8th International Erlang User Conference, 2002
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/gorrie02distel.html

- Have you developed or participated in the development of any
 Lisp-related programs or libraries? If so, please supply a URL,
 if possible.
SLIME: The Superior Lisp Interaction Mode for Emacs
http://www.common-lisp.net/project/slime/

- Lisp variants you have used (e.g. Common Lisp, Scheme, Dylan):
Common Lisp, Emacs Lisp, Scheme.

- Lisp variants you're currently using or intend to use in the
 near future:
Common Lisp and Emacs Lisp.

- Lisp implementations you have used
 (e.g. CMUCL, Lispworks, Allegro Common Lisp):
CMUCL, SBCL, CLISP, Kawa (Scheme/Java), GNU Emacs Lisp.

- Lisp implementations you're currently using or intend to use
 in the near future:
CMUCL, SBCL, GNU Emacs Lisp.

- Computer platforms on which you're using or deploying Lisp:
Debian GNU/Linux.

- Number of years of experience with Lisp:
Six or so in total. About three with Common Lisp in particular.

- Do you use Lisp:
 - at work (if so, how much)
 - for study (if so, how much)
 - as a hobby (if so, how much)
Primarily for a hobby, perhaps 12 hours per week on average this past
year. I've used Scheme for perhaps 4 months full-time at work.

- Are you using Lisp as much as you would like to?
 If not, why not?
Hard question. I would like to use Lisp a lot more, but then there are
so many things that I'd like to do a lot more. The current balance is
okay for me.

- Do you see any obstacles to further Lisp growth (if so, what
 is the biggest obstacle in your opinion)?
Not really: I think that Lisp is growing quite fast.
I would prefer if Lisp hackers weren't spread across so many
implementations. I'd like to be able to write code for a single Lisp
and still have a large community who'll be able to use it.

- Are you currently participating in Lisp-related meetings?
 If so, where and how often?
 If not, would you be interested in such meetings?
I'm not currently, but I would be interested in local user-group type
of meetings. I would also like an easy way to check if there's a Lisp
meeting coming up in some particular city for when I'm travelling.