In The Unknowable I use LISP to compare my work on incompleteness with that of Gödel and Turing, and in The Limits of Mathematics I use LISP to discuss my work on incompleteness in more detail. In this book we'll use LISP to explore my theory of randomness, called algorithmic information theory (AIT).

The LispWorks ORB will let you build and run distributed applications in Common Lisp, straight out of the box. When combined with a database interface, you are able to build three-tier, client-server applications completely in Common Lisp.

Common Lisp has succeeded. Since publication of the first edition of this book in 1984, many implementors have used it as a de facto standard for Lisp implementation. As a result, it is now much easier to port large Lisp programs from one implementation to another. Common Lisp has proved to be a useful and stable platform for rapid prototyping and systems delivery in artificial intelligence and other areas. WIth experience gained in using Common Lisp for so many applications, implementors found no shortage of opportunities for innovation.

I THE BASICS
1 Getting Started
2 Numbers
3 Lists
4 Arithmetic
5 Strings and Characters
6 Symbols
7 Packages
8 Basic List Processing
9 The Special Form quote

II PROGRAMMING IN PURE LISP
10 Defining Your Own Functions
11 Defining Functions in Packages
12 Saving for Another Day
13 Predicate Functions
14 Conditional Expressions
15 Recursion
16 Recursion on Lists, Part 1 -- Analysis
17 Recursion on Lists, Part 2 -- Synthesis
18 Recursion on Trees
19 The Evaluator

Most of the GNU Emacs integrated environment is written in the programming language called Emacs Lisp. The code written in this programming language is the software--the sets of instructions--that tell the computer what to do when you give it commands. Emacs is designed so that you can write new code in Emacs Lisp and easily install it as an extension to the editor.