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About-ACL2

General information About ACL2

This is ACL2 Version 8.6, copyright (C) 2025, Regents of the University of Texas, authored by Matt Kaufmann and J Strother Moore.

See the ACL2 home page for additional information including tutorials, installation instructions, mailing lists, related publications, ACL2 workshops and seminars, acknowledgments, and other ACL2 releases.

See documentation for how to access the ACL2 User's Manual.

For statistics on ACL2 code size, see file doc/acl2-code-size.txt.

Subtopics

Recursion-and-induction
Recursion and Induction
Operational-semantics
Modeling State Machines
Soundness
Correctness property claimed for ACL2
Release-notes
Pointers to what has changed
Version
ACL2 Version Number
Acknowledgments
Some contributors to the well-being of ACL2
Pre-built-binary-distributions
Pre-built binary distributions of ACL2
Common-lisp
Relation to Common Lisp, including deviations from the spec
Git-quick-start
Git quick start guide
Copyright
ACL2 copyright, license, sponsorship
Building-ACL2
How to build an ACL2 executable
ACL2-help
The acl2-help mailing list
Bibliography
Reports about ACL2