It doesn't really compute anything though - other than producing more code which is in one of the core paradigms. I wouldn't argue that this is a paradigm in th

It doesn't really compute anything though - other than producing more code which is in one of the core paradigms. I wouldn't argue that this is a paradigm in the same category. It's a very handy set of (often very complex) shortcuts. C++ templates at one level just save you a lot of typing. At another level they let you do type-level computation, but that's just shifting execution into the compile phase instead of the runtime phase. AOP, as far as my experience goes, is a structural thing. Again, it doesn't change anything fundamental about how programs are evaluated but rather how the pieces of a program are assembled.