Chapter 1. Introduction to Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP)
A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing. | ||
--Alan J. Perlis [4] |
If your only exposure to programming technology has been through SystemVerilog or SystemC, you might be forgiven for thinking that object orientation is a brand new idea that’s at the cutting edge of software design. After all, the marketing for these languages makes a big deal out of the fact that they are object oriented. While object orientation is a great thing to have in your language, it can hardly be classed as cutting edge. C++, which was released in 1983, drew inspiration from Simula 67 which was about in 1967.
Because object orientation has been around for a while, ...
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