Research In Programming Languages

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David Nolen

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Mar 3, 2012, 12:43:07 PM3/3/12

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http://tagide.com/blog/2012/03/research-in-programming-languages

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Mar 3, 2012, 9:21:19 PM3/3/12

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On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 12:43 PM, David Nolen <dnolen...@gmail.com> wrote:

http://tagide.com/blog/2012/03/research-in-programming-languages

Some missing context, this post is by Cristina Lopes, one of the co-inventors of Aspect Oriented Programming. For those who don't know she & 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/