English

Concrete Semantics with Coq and CoqHammer

Logic in Computer Science 2018-08-21 v1

Abstract

The "Concrete Semantics" book gives an introduction to imperative programming languages accompanied by an Isabelle/HOL formalization. In this paper we discuss a re-formalization of the book using the Coq proof assistant. In order to achieve a similar brevity of the formal text we extensively use CoqHammer, as well as Coq Ltac-level automation. We compare the formalization efficiency, compactness, and the readability of the proof scripts originating from a Coq re-formalization of two chapters from the book.

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@article{arxiv.1808.06413,
  title  = {Concrete Semantics with Coq and CoqHammer},
  author = {Łukasz Czajka and Burak Ekici and Cezary Kaliszyk},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.06413},
  year   = {2018}
}
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