The Kansas University rewrite engine

@article{Sculthorpe2014TheKU,
  title={The Kansas University rewrite engine},
  author={Neil Sculthorpe and Nicolas Frisby and Andy Gill},
  journal={Journal of Functional Programming},
  year={2014},
  volume={24},
  pages={434 - 473}
}
Abstract When writing transformation systems, a significant amount of engineering effort goes into setting up the infrastructure needed to direct individual transformations to specific targets in the data being transformed. Strategic programming languages provide general-purpose infrastructure for this task, which the author of a transformation system can use for any algebraic data structure. The Kansas University Rewrite Engine (KURE) is a typed strategic programming language, implemented as a… 
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