- First name: Thomas   - Last name: Elam   - Email address: REMOVED   - Phone number(s): 91+98452-22813 and 91+ 80-2557-4318   - Postal code: 560042   - City: Bangalore   - State or province: Karnataka   - Country: India   - Organization(s) you work for or study at   Working on my own project with a native Indian, which we hope to sell as a customised product. (I am an American expatriate.) We are loosely associated with Pennant Consulting Services (pennant.co.in).   - Fields of interest   Most interested in working on the kinds of applications I would use daily: applications that would help me do research using the Internet and help me organisationally. Interested in writing software that doesn't repeat the software stupidities I try to cope with every day. I have too many ideas and not enough time.   - 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.   My biggest piece of Lisp work was probably the small application I wrote that parses a Mozilla bookmarks file and stores the bookmarks and bookmark folders as objects in a tree.   - Lisp variants you have used (e.g. Common Lisp, Scheme, Dylan):   Common Lisp and PLT-Scheme. I also set up .emacs for a few things. (Does that count?)   - 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):   - Lisp implementations you're currently using or intend to use in the near future:   - Computer platforms on which you're using or deploying Lisp:   Linux and Windows.   - Number of years of experience with Lisp:   Over 2, off & on.   - Experience with other programming languages (please supply the number of years and the name of the language):   Mainly various assumbly languages (a few years) and C (over 10 years).   - Total number of years of programming experience:   About 15.   - Do you use Lisp: - at work (if so, how much) - for study (if so, how much) - as a hobby (if so, how much)   Now at work, 100%.   - Are you using Lisp as much as you would like to? If not, why not?   I would like to use it more. ;-)   - Do you see any obstacles to further Lisp growth (if so, what is the biggest obstacle in your opinion)?   The difficulty of understanding all the concepts and their application.   - Would you be interested in a Lisp-related job or contract work?   Yes.   - Is your organization interested in hiring Lisp programmers?   Possibly.   - Are you currently participating in Lisp-related meetings? If so, where and how often?   Online we have groups.yahoo.com/group/bangalore-lisp It is sporadically active.   If not, would you be interested in such meetings?   Yes.   - Do you know any other Lispers who might be willing to fill in this questionnaire (please supply their names and email-addresses if you do)?   I will mention the questionaire in our group.   - Do you know people who may be interested in learning Lisp (please supply their names and email-addresses if you do)?   Probably many of the people in our group. I would like to understand Common Lisp better.