William Bland is a Lisp programmer from Britain, who currently lives in Mountain View, California.

I originally taught myself PC-LISP when I was 12 years old, because I couldn't figure out how to re-implement ELIZA in BASIC. People seemed to be saying that Lisp was a dying language, and I was young and naive enough to believe them, so I gave up for a while and learned a little C++ and a lot of Java. Lisp isn't dead at all - I've been paid to write Lisp software! I know Scheme reasonably well, but Common Lisp is now my language of choice. The most amusing thing I've done so far in Lisp was to embed a Scheme interpreter in the Linux kernel (Schemix).

I wrote, and currently maintain, lispdoc - a search engine for Common Lisp documentation.