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Subject: Announcing Isabelle99-2
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To: isabelle-users@cl.cam.ac.uk
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Isabelle99-2 is now available.  This release continues the line of
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Isabelle99, introducing various improvements in robustness and
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usability.
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The most prominent highlights of Isabelle99-2 are as follows.  See the
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NEWS file distributed with Isabelle for more details.
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  * Poly/ML 4.0 used by default
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    More robust, less disk space required.
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  * Pure/Simplifier (Stefan Berghofer)
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    Proper implementation as a derived rule, outside the kernel!
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  * Isabelle/Isar (Markus Wenzel)
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    Numerous usability improvements, e.g. support for initial
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    schematic goals, failure prediction of subgoal statements,
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    handling of non-atomic statements in induction.
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  * Improved document preparation (Markus Wenzel)
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    Near math-mode, sub/super scripts, more symbols etc.
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  * HOL/Library (Gertrud Bauer, Tobias Nipkow, Lawrence C Paulson,
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      Thomas M Rasmussen, Markus Wenzel)
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    A collection of generic theories to be used together with main HOL.
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  * HOL/Real and HOL/Hyperreal (Lawrence C Paulson and Jacques Fleuriot)
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    General cleanup, more on nonstandard real analysis.
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  * HOL/Unix (Markus Wenzel)
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    Some Aspects of Unix file-system security; demonstrates
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    Isabelle/Isar in typical system modelling and verification tasks.
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  * HOL/Tutorial (Tobias Nipkow, Lawrence C Paulson)
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    Extended version of the Isabelle/HOL tutorial.
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You may get Isabelle99-2 from any of the following mirror sites:
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  Cambridge (UK)    http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/HVG/Isabelle/dist/
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  Munich (Germany)  http://isabelle.in.tum.de/dist/
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  New Jersey (USA)  ftp://ftp.research.bell-labs.com/dist/smlnj/isabelle/index.html
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  Stanford (USA)    ftp://rodin.stanford.edu/pub/smlnj/isabelle/index.html