Jan Kort, Ralf Lämmel, Joost Visser. Functional Transformation Systems. In María Alpuente, editor, 9th International Workshop on Functional and Logic Programming, WFLP 2000, Benicassim, Spain, September 28-30, 2000. pages 154-168, 2000.
We demonstrate how functional programming can be used as a platform for developing integrated transformation systems that are typed, scalable, easy to use, and adaptable. The kernel of such a functional transformation system for a certain language is a transformation framework generated from the language’s grammar. The framework provides a fold traversal scheme and adaptable basic traversals. From the grammar a parser and pretty-printer is also generated. There is also support for storage and interchange of intermediate results. A software renovation case study illustrates our approach and its practical value.