Aspect-Oriented Programming Considered Harmful

kupci writes "The 'x considered harmful' cry is a little overused, but there is a Forrester report that discusses some of the pro's and con's of Aspect-oriented Programming, and includes some interesting links. It is mainly based on papers from the University of Passau. It's worth it just for Clark's 'COME FROM' article." From the article: "Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) is intended to address common problems that object-oriented programming (OOP) doesn't address well, plus some problems that OOP itself created. However, AOP is a risky solution: It is a very generic mechanism for solving some very specific concerns and has been likened to a kind of "GOTO" statement for OOP. Like GOTO, it can cause more harm than good."

Comments

Good primer on aspect-oriented programming?

[John_Booty]

Google, of course, returns a ton of results for aspect-oriented programming. Does anybody have one in particular that they recommend?

I'm a fairly experienced coder, but I don't have any experience with AOP whatever. I don't even know what it is!