Re: Trouble translating a C++ data-structure.

["Dan'l Miller" <optikos@verizon.net>]

> Dan'l Miller wrote:
> > Read all of Mary Shaw's work on Alphard from the 1970s.  It approaches 
> > the problem-space that AOP tries to solve from an entirely different 
> > perspective (which the INRIA OCaml community also pursue differently 
> > decades later): little languages. 
Paul Rubin wrote:
> Do you have a URL?  The Wikipedia article about Alphard isn't very 
> informative.  I don't see how the "little language" approach handles the 
> issue of cross-cutting that AOP purports to solve. 

  Well, you asking for a URL to something nearly prehistoric in the Internet age.  But you are in luck, Google has scanned the best 37-year-old book on Alphard:

https://books.google.com/books?id=tvXSBwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=mary+shaw+alphard++form+and+content&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi74eHouOrZAhVRt1MKHSZHAz4Q6AEIKTAA#v=onepage&q=mary%20shaw%20alphard%20%20form%20and%20content&f=false

I would recommend Parts V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, and X and the intervening Interludes.  The book is largely a compilation of the vision of Jon Bentley (Programming Pearls), William Wulf (BLISS; C.mmp MIMD), and Mary Shaw (CMU SEI).  Keep in mind, you will not see AOP jargon & solution-space in this far-earlier work.  To see it, requires a clever reading.