- 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.