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Aspect-Oriented Programming: An Historical Perspective (What�s in a Name?)
Institute for Software Research, University of California, Irvine, (декабря 2002)
Аннотация
The term �Aspect-Oriented Programming� (AOP) came into existence sometime
between November of 1995 and May of 1996, at the Xerox Palo Alto Research
Center (PARC).
AOP was based on an extensive body of prior work, but somehow the
existing terminology wasn�t
appropriate for describing what we were doing. The new programming
technology we were
beginning to devise was going to change the world! In this article
I will give my own account of
how AOP � the ideas, the technologies and the name � came to be. But
History is just marginally
interesting if one doesn�t make the effort to learn from it and apply
that knowledge in things that
are still to come. AOP didn�t quite �change the world� but, no doubt,
it had an impact in research
communities and in programming at- large. There are valuable lessons
to be learned from the
emergence of AOP, and an analysis of those is the ultimate goal of
this article.
