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