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.

       --help display help information

       --version
              Display version number

       -no-prelude
              Do not read in the standard prelude

       -no-banner
              Do not output banner on startup

       -no-advice
              No advisories on startup

       -no-mixfix
              Do not use mixfix notation for output

       -no-wrap
              Do not automatic line wrapping for output

       -ansi-color
              Use ANSI control sequences

       -no-ansi-color
              Do not use ANSI control sequences

       -tecla Use tecla command line editing

       -no-tecla
              Do not use tecla command line editing

       -batch Run in batch mode

       -interactive
              Run in interactive mode

       -random-seed=<int>
              Set seed for random number generator

       -xml-log=<filename>
              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                                         MAUDE(1)