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MAUDE(1) General Commands Manual MAUDE(1)

NAME

Maude - A high-performance logical framework

SYNOPSIS

maude [options] [files]

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the Maude interpreter. This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

Maude is a high-performance reflective language and system supporting both equational and rewriting logic specification and programming for a wide range of applications. Maude has been influenced in important ways by the OBJ3 language, which can be regarded as an equational logic sublanguage. Besides supporting equational specification and programming, Maude also supports rewriting logic computation.

Rewriting logic is a logic of concurrent change that can naturally deal with state and with concurrent computations. It has good properties as a general semantic framework for giving executable semantics to a wide range of languages and models of concurrency. In particular, it supports very well concurrent object-oriented computation. The same reasons making rewriting logic a good semantic framework make it also a good logical framework, that is, a metalogic in which many other logics can be naturally represented and executed.

Maude supports in a systematic and efficient way logical reflection. This makes Maude remarkably extensible and powerful, supports an extensible algebra of module composition operations, and allows many advanced metaprogramming and metalanguage applications. Indeed, some of the most interesting applications of Maude are metalanguage applications, in which Maude is used to create executable environments for different logics, theorem provers, languages, and models of computation.

display help information
Display version number
Do not read in the standard prelude
Do not output banner on startup
No advisories on startup
Do not use mixfix notation for output
Do not automatic line wrapping for output
Use ANSI control sequences
Do not use ANSI control sequences
Use tecla command line editing
Do not use tecla command line editing
Run in batch mode
Run in interactive mode
Set seed for random number generator
Set file in which to produce an xml log

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 1997-2011 SRI International, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA.

Copyright (c) 1997 - 2002, Makoto Matsumoto and Takuji Nishimura,

Copyright (c) 2000 - 2003, Richard J. Wagner

REPORTING BUGS

Send bug reports to: maude-bugs@maude.cs.uiuc.edu

SEE ALSO

Websites:

http://maude.cs.uiuc.edu/
Official Maude website

Mailing lists:

http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/maude-users
A moderated list for the discussion of topics of general interest to all Maude users.
http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/maude-help
Help list for questions about using Maude.

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Scott Christley <schristley@mac.com> based upon the Maude help text.

February 2011