Pure Aspect-Oriented Program: an example

[Jay O'Connor]

On 7 Nov 2003 22:37:27 -0800, hungjunglu at yahoo.com (Hung Jung Lu)
wrote:

>Richie Hindle <richie at entrian.com> wrote in message news:<mailman.488.1068134598.702.python-list at python.org>...
>> 
>> Fantastic!  That's the best introduction to the concepts of AOP I've seen.
>> Many thanks for a very clear and thought-provoking article.
>> 
>> Now please implement it for Python, including your proposed IDE.  8-)
>
>Yeah, right. :)
>
>I do realize that people are converging in their ideas. AOP is
>becoming more and more clear with each passing day. That's really
>exciting. But I believe things have not yet finalized, and I am not a
>"marketoid" to go out and sell half-baked ideas. :)
>
>Java folks have economical resources, but their language puts so much
>handcuff on them that AOP there is kind of hard to use. Ruby is
>perhaps the language that's easiest to accomodate, and Python comes a
>close second. As for IDEs, you can bet Java folks will have something
>before anyone else. Although I am not sure why people'd keep investing
>effort into such a rigid language.
>

AFAIK, Aspect Oriented Programming is already available in a few
Smalltalk dialects, possibly even support within the IDEs