Re: [abc] AAA keynote draft

You give a very nice motivation for a formal pointcut semantics.

p. 28: Do you really want to say M$ SQL server? With the dollar sign?

The transition to the open modules stuff is also smooth, I found.

I didn't realize you're now implementing open modules in Datalog
(or are you? the slides at the end kind of suggest it)

Ondrej

On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 03:53:59PM +0100, Oege de Moor wrote:
> Friends,
>
> I'm giving a keynote at the "Astrenet Aspect Analysis" workshop in Benevento
> this coming Tuesday [urk, missing OOPSLA on this account]. The audience
> knows AspectJ; it's associated with a conference on re-engineering, so their
> notion of `analysis' is more like pointcut matching than like dataflow
> analysis.
>
> The web page of the workshop can be found here:
>
> http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/staff/zheng/astrenet/html/astrenet8.html
>
> I have a whopping 90 minutes to pontificate.
>
> A draft of the slides can be found here:
>
> http://musketeer.comlab.ox.ac.uk/~oege/AAA.pdf
>
> Thanks to Neil and Pavel for already giving me useful feedback on the
> slides. Of course the remaining errors are all mine!
>
> Further suggestions for improvement would be very welcome, especially before
> I travel to Italy on Monday. As you can see, I go quite deeply into the POPL
> paper, but I intend the last part of the talk to be lighter, hopefully
> stimulating some discussion on the AspectJ choice of joinpoints [throw it
> out! power to the people!], and open modules.
>
> Should I expand the last part a bit [45 slides is already a lot for 90
> minutes]? Is there too much datalog in the talk?
>
> Cheers,
>
> -Oege
>
>
Received on Mon Oct 23 14:35:26 2006