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Where is Aspect Oriented Programming and all the other offspring of the Inversion of Control pattern (Dependency Injection, Dependency Inversion, ...)?

Is this line of evolution in languages considered dead?

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Yes, thank heavens, yes!

These are more tactical (i.e. low-level) techniques that big strategies that encapsulate entire languages.

What, you don't like computed non-local come-from's?

Came here to say the same thing. Learning about Inversion of Control utterly changed how I program on a day-to-day basis.

It may not be a language feature, but the things in the article seem rather academic by comparison.

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