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.

       --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)