[PRL] legacy code and AOP

[Karl Lieberherr]

Yes, Ralf who is now at Microsoft Research, has a fun paper on Aspects
and Cobol at AOSD 2005 next month in Chicago.

-- Karl

-----Original Message-----
From: prl-bounces at lists.ccs.neu.edu
[mailto:prl-bounces at lists.ccs.neu.edu] On Behalf Of Paul A. Steckler
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 7:39 PM
To: Matthias Felleisen
Cc: 'PRL mailing list'; Shriram Krishnamurthi
Subject: Re: [PRL] legacy code and AOP

> 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

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