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<H1>Aim</H1> |
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There is already quite good documentation available for users to learn |
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how to interact with Isabelle and to use it for proving |
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theorems (see <A HREF="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/hvg/Isabelle/documentation.html" target="_top">here</A>). |
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However, the entry barrier for users to program on the ML-level of Isabelle |
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is still unbearably high. In this project we want to change this state |
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of affairs by providing a <i>tutorial</i> about ML-coding in Isabelle. |
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At its centre we describe the |
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implementation of a simple prototypical Isabelle package (we describe |
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a simplified version of the inductive package). We hope by |
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documenting every aspect of this package that in the future you will |
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be able to modify, extend and adapt this package for your own purposes, |
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see how developers code in Isabelle and understand better Isabelle's |
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idiosyncrasies. As a result you will be able to quickly produce code |
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for your own needs and will be able to participate in keeping Isabelle |
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alive in the long run. |
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Specific topics of the tutorial we have not yet covered: |
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<li> First Steps |
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<li>theories, contexts and local theories |
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<li>morphisms |
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<li>name spaces |
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<li>Parsing |
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<li>context-, argument- and attribute parsers |
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<li>parsing and printing translations |
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<li>methods |
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<li>Tactical Reasoning |
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<li>declarations |
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<li>structured proofs |
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<li>Advanced Stuff |
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<li>user-space type-systems |
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<li>typing algorithms |
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<li>external applications |
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Please help us to expand on this list. |
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<H3>We need You</H3> |
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We need help for accomplishing this tutorial. If you are familiar with the |
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ML-level of Isabelle, please get in contact with us (see addresses below). If you |
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are not familiar, but like to know more about the bits and pieces that make |
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up the Isabelle code, then let us know what you are interested in or what |
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project you like to implement. Above all we like to help future users and |
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developers of Isabelle; we do not want to end up with some "artificial documentation" |
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that is of nobody's help. Also proofreading and feedback would be most |
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appreciated. |
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<H3>People to contact</H3> |
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The project is managed by |
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<li> <A HREF="http://www.inf.kcl.ac.uk/staff/urbanc/" target="_top">Christian Urban</A> (christian.urban at kcl ac uk) |
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<li> <A HREF="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~lp15/" target="_top">Larry Paulson</A> (lp15 at cam ac uk) |
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<li> <A HREF="http://nicta.com.au/people/norrishm" target="_top">Michael Norrish</A> |
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(Michael.Norrish at nicta com au) |
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There is also the following mailing list that is subscribed by all developers |
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and open for help, suggestions etc. about this project. |
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<A HREF="https://mailmanbroy.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/mailman/listinfo/isabelle-dev"> |
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isabelle-dev@mailbroy.informatik.tu-muenchen.de</A> |
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<H3>Repository</H3> |
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A preliminary |
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is available and you are very welcome to contribute to it. The current draft of the tutorial is <A HREF="http://www.inf.kcl.ac.uk/staff/urbanc/cgi-bin/repos.cgi/isabelle-cookbook/raw-file/tip/progtutorial.pdf" target="_top" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('tutorial');">here</A>.
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<H3>Stable Version</H3> |
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There is no real stable version of the Programming Tutorial yet. If you need a version |
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that is guaranteed to work with Isabelle 2011-1, then please get in touch with me |
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(christian.urban at kcl ac uk). |
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<H3><A NAME="readers"></A>What early readers said:</H3> |
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the Cookbook was essential for the last step (Piotr Trojanek, University of Bristol, 2014) |
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...and the Isabelle/ML Cookbook are valuable resources (Lars Hupel, 2014) |
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GREAT!!! That's exactly what I was looking for! (Thomas Genet, ISTIC/IRISA, 2012) |
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The tutorial really is quite nice. (Jeremy Avigad, CMU, 2011) |
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By the way, thanks for the Isabelle Cookbook, it's really helpful to |
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start with Isabelle/ML. (Mathieu Giorgino, 2011) |
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Great! This seems to have a lot of the missing pieces I couldn't find |
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in the tutorial and reference manual. (Kevin Van Horn, 2011) |
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I've been fighting for hours trying to derive some theorems automatically, |
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until Florian told me I should try using conversions and then I read the Cookbook |
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section and it solved my problem. The example with abs_conv in particular was |
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particularly illuminating. Thanks! (Jasmin Blanchette, TU Munich, 2010) |
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<i> The cook book seems really helpful, if not even exactly what I need. |
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(Nils Jähnig, FU Berlin, 2010)</i> |
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<i>The Programming Tutorial has helped me tremendously to get familiar with |
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Isabelle, which I used in my bachelor thesis about the type-inference algorithm |
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in Isabelle. (Dmitriy Traytel, TU Munich, 2010)</i> |
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<i>I've already pointed a couple of PhD students at the programming tutorial, and |
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they've already found it to be a great place to start with Isabelle |
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programming. (Lucas Dixon, University of Edinburgh, 2009)</i> |
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<i>The Isabelle Programming Tutorial is great! I finally learned how to add |
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new keywords and how to parse outer syntax! (Amine Chaieb, University of Cambridge)</i> |
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<i>I felt the programming tutorial was very clear and comprehensible. I'm |
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toying with actually getting back to Isabelle again. Thanks to |
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everyone involved in the documentation project. I really think it |
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is worthwhile. (Tom Ridge, University of Cambridge, 2009)</i> |
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<i>I learned from the tutorial how to deal with fresh variables and also which function to use |
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for applying substitutions that are generated by unification. |
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(Lukas Bulwahn, TU Munich, 2009)</i> |
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<i> What a great resource! I wish I'd had this when I wrote my first |
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parser in December 2008. |
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(Timothy Bourke, UNSW Sydney, 2009)</i> |
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