Notes on PVS from a HOL perspective

Michael J.C. Gordon
Reader in Formal Methods
University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory
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Abstract During the first week of July 1995 I visited SRI Menlo Park to find out more about PVS (Prototype Verification System). The preceding week I attended LICS95, where I had several talks with Natarajan Shankar accompanied by demos of the system on his SparcBook laptop. This note consists of a somewhat rambling and selective report on some of the things I learned, together with a discussion of their implications for the evolution of the HOL system.
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