[PRL] legacy code and AOP

Jeffrey D Palm jpalm at ccs.neu.edu
Wed Feb 9 11:34:38 EST 2005


Matthias Felleisen wrote:
> 
> If this is true and AOP is also about change huge code bases to do the 
> right thing _after the fact_, then has anyone thought of developing an 
> AOP system for C so that engineers can re-engineer concerns in piles of 
> C code and help programmers navigate ill-defined, useful, and 
> to-be-maintained systems? 
> 
> -- Matthias

This may seem trivial, but isn't there more FORTRAN lying around than C? 
  Why single out C?  Or was this a catch-all for legacy code?

Jeff
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