AOP use cases

[Richie Hindle]

[Will]
> It's all abstract chitchat [...] Forget about *real* real-world
> examples, these people just want to get papers published. [...]
> AOP is nothing more than what I expect from a decent programmer:
> a good, or at least reasonable, design of software in the first
> place.

This whole AOP discussion reminds me of this from the ever-relevant
Hitch-Hiker's Guide:

  Slowly, however, the implications of the idea began to be understood. To
  begin with it had been too stark, too crazy, too much what the man in the
  street would have said, 'Oh yes, I could have told you that,' about. Then
  some phrases like 'Interactive Subjectivity Frameworks' were invented, and
  everybody was able to relax and get on with it.

I'm happy to be a man in the street on this one.  Let the Java crowd invent
shiny new TLAs.

-- 
Richie Hindle
richie at entrian.com