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extension on May 16, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why are Black Boxes so Hard to Reuse? (OOPSLA ’94)

Why would you assume that? I know of those things and they haven't penetrated much in the 17 years since that presentation. But the patterns they embody have at least become common in the more popular and impoverished languages. This reveals their value to the masses and drives their acceptance as first-class language features.

swannodette on May 16, 2011 [–]

My impression of why these things haven't penetrated in 17 years -

  * Few people program in Common Lisp
  * AspectJ is an extension to Java

danssig on May 16, 2011 | [–]

I think Aspects have penetrated pretty well via Spring. They're probably used more for logging than anything else, but it's something.

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