[LispSea] jobs

[Brandon J. Van Every]

Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
> It sounds like you know how to get a paying job doing Lisp or Scheme or
> something.

News to me!  Admittedly, I haven't looked lately.

>  Be your own boss and choose your best tools.  

Well I am, and I do.  But my revenues come from signatures, not code.  
For all my talk I'm pretty clueless about actual programming markets.  I 
haven't coded for money since 1998, when the DEC Alpha died.  I suppose 
once the signature season is over in WA in about 3 weeks, I should put 
some more serious effort into this.  I will add "High Level Language Job 
Market" to my bio of interests.

> Find some
> compatriots to work with you on making a business.  

Went around in circles with some 3D and animation guys about that.  Gave 
up on them.  Potential business partners haven't been that easy for me 
to come by.  I started the OCaml group to be a breeding ground for that, 
and continued it when Jeff instigated the SeaFunc consolidation.  Hasn't 
done anything for me, yet.  It did get Jeff a swank new job at Amazon 
though.

> That strikes me as more
> efficient than converting the society around you.
>   

Not sure I agree.  But I will add "Business Models" to my bio of interests.

> Either way, my interest is in miniature Lisp systems (e.g., Scheme at its
> basic level) and also how and whether to integrate Lisp solutions into
> industrial-grade application deployments.  (That's why Chicken tweaks my
> interest too.)

Hmm, you know, I haven't run through this stage of the game in Chicken 
land.  I did it with OCaml... and rapidly found that it was a waste of 
time, lacking other preconditions.  So when I moved on to Chicken, I 
concentrated on the most immediate task in front of me.  Getting the 
thing to build reliably on MinGW.  That has consumed me for 9 months!  
You are reminding me, however, that there are other stages of the game 
after that.  One reason I'm strongly interested in pushing Chicken is 
it's BSD licensed.  Another is it's small, intelligible, and 
embeddable.  A distant third may be the C++ support.  I'm just not sure 
how good that support is though.

Gads maybe I should just take a month off and implement my own website.  
I hate doing that sort of thing, but I decided awhile ago, promoting 
*myself* was probably the most efficient course of action.  But I 
haven't had time for it.  Too busy either coding or signature gathering.


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every