[PRL] legacy code and AOP

[Paul A. Steckler]

> 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? If not, why is nobody working on this? Is CS 
> really guilty of always solving engineering problems that nobody has 
> created yet?

Oleg tells me that Ralf L\"{a}mmel has done work with weaving 
aspects into COBOL: http://homepages.cwi.nl/~ralf/AspectCobol/.

<humor-attempt>The COBOL is so old and brittle, it often crumbles when
the aspects are woven into it.</humor-attempt>

-- Paul