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AspectCOOL: an experiment in design and implementation of aspect-oriented language

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Enis Avdičauševič,

Viljem ZumerAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 36, Issue 12

Pages 84 - 94

https://doi.org/10.1145/583960.583971

Published: 01 December 2001 Publication History

Abstract

Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) is a promising technique helping programmers to easily reason about, develop and maintain programs. AOP improves reusability since components with a clearly defined functionality, which is not tangled with different aspects, are much easier to reuse. In order to explore different AOP concepts a general-purpose aspect-oriented language AspectCOOL has been designed and implemented. Among the different concepts, which we explored, the most important is the separate compilation of aspect and component code. Using this concept aspects can be applied on already compiled components, which improves their reusability.

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Van Wyk E(2007)Implementing aspect-oriented programming constructs as modular language extensionsScience of Computer Programming10.1016/j.scico.2005.06.00668:1(38-61)Online publication date: 1-Aug-2007
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AspectCOOL: an experiment in design and implementation of aspect-oriented language
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development techniques
      1. Reusability
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language types
        Object oriented languages
    2. Software libraries and repositories

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ACM SIGPLAN Notices Volume 36, Issue 12

December 2001

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DOI:10.1145/583960

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