[aosd-discuss] Re: Smith and the foundations of AOP

[Joe Faith]

Gregor,

I was very interested to read your presentation, especially drawing links
with Brian Smith's OOO. I'd agree that AOP is in need of some stronger
conceptual foundations, but wasn't quite sure what such an account would
look like.

Could you give an example of the kind of research analysis you mention that
OO has had since the 90s -- specific papers or books if possible?

Thanks

Joe Faith 

School of Informatics, University of Northumbria 
http://computing.unn.ac.uk/staff/CGJF1/ 



Gregor Kiczales wrote:

Message: 1
From: "Gregor Kiczales" <gregor at cs.ubc.ca>
To: <aaanwar at yahoo.com>
Cc: <discuss at aosd.net>
Subject: RE: [aosd-discuss] Is there a survey of what are the different
definitions of Aspects out there
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 13:34:52 -0800
  - some ideas for a solid foundation for the field might be found
    in Brian Smith's "On the Origin of Objects"


The slides are at:

  http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~gregor/kiczales-aosd-2003.ppt

They will shortly be on the AOSD conference website as well.


I should note that I was talking about a really solid conceptual
account for the field.  By that I mean the kind of research analysis
we didn't have for objects until the 90s.  (Some would argue we still
don't have it today.) None of my comments mean we are not in a
position to continue to develop and deploy practical AOSD mechanisms!
AOSD technology will continue to be easier to deploy and adopt than
OOP technology was.