On Thursday 20 September 2007, Dave Smith wrote: > I'm surprised no one has mentioned Aspect Oriented Programming for > debugging, which to me is a textbook no-brainer application. It operates > (potentially) directly on the parse tree and should be ideal for > removing/adding debugging code at build time (or even run time). Is it > dead?
AOP is not dead. There are many projects to add AOP to several languages. They include at least (from my recollection when I last read up on it) Lisp, PHP, boo, Ruby, Python, javascript, and I believe even C++ --although code weaving in a statically compiled language is a bit more difficult. I never looked into Java or .net/mono, but I imagine it should be possible even if not easy. I have been itching for a good project to try my hand at AOP with... /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
