Hi,

The Lisp community is growing rapidly. In order to support this growth, the ALU (Association of Lisp Users) is building a database of all people and organizations with an interest in Lisp. This information will be published on the ALU site (http://www.alu.org). You can find a list of the questionnaires we've received so far at http://www.xs4all.nl/~alemmens/alu/database.

We hope that this information will help Lispers to get an answer to questions like:

- Are there other Lispers in the region I live in? If so, how many? How can I contact them? - Which other Lispers are working in my fields of interest? - Where can I find programmers who can write or maintain Lisp software for my organization? - Where can I find organizations that are hiring Lisp programmers? - What Lisp activities are taking place in my neighbourhood?

Hopefully, we can also use this information to dispel the myth that nobody is using Lisp.

If you have any interest in Lisp, we would appreciate it very much if you could fill in the following questionnaire. The information you supply will be processed by humans before we pass it on to computers, so please feel free to ignore any questions that you don't want to answer or to answer questions that we didn't think of asking.

Thank you very much.

Arthur Lemmens,

Association of Lisp Users

--------------- Lisp Users Questionnaire -----------------------------

- First name:

- Last name:

- Email address:

- Phone number(s):

- Postal code:

- City:

- State or province:

- Country:

- Organization(s) you work for or study at (please supply the name and city for each organization):

- 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):

- 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:

- Number of years of experience with Lisp:

- Experience with other programming languages (please supply the number of years and the name of the language):

- Total number of years of programming experience:

- Do you use Lisp: - at work (if so, how much) - for study (if so, how much) - as a hobby (if so, how much)

- Are you using Lisp as much as you would like to? If not, why not?

- Do you see any obstacles to further Lisp growth (if so, what is the biggest obstacle in your opinion)?

- Would you be interested in a Lisp-related job or contract work?

- Is your organization interested in hiring Lisp programmers?

- Are you currently participating in Lisp-related meetings? If so, where and how often? If not, would you be interested in such meetings?

- Do you know any other Lispers who might be willing to fill in this questionnaire (please supply their email-address if you do)?