Some missing context, this post is by Cristina Lopes, one of the co-inventors of Aspect Oriented Programming. For thos that don't know Gregor Kiczales and other

Some missing context, this post is by Cristina Lopes, one of the co-inventors of Aspect Oriented Programming. For thos that don't know Gregor Kiczales and others worked on the CLOS MOP culminating in their book The Art of MetaObject Protocol. I still think this is the only success story of I'm aware of where multiple incompatible programming language dialects were unified under a protocol malleable enough to express them all. This is William Cook's points about the flexibility of OOP taken to the extreme. When Kiczales and others realized Common Lisp as a community wasn't going anywhere they took their ideas and created AspectJ. Anyways, her blog seems like a lively read in general - I found this blog post pretty entertaining and I agree wholeheartedly - http://tagide.com/blog/2011/05/programming-is-math-apparently/ http://tagide.com/blog/2011/05/programming-is-math-apparentl...