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Belgium. He is known in the field of

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as well as in the

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(AOP) community for contributions to this field by applying AOP through Lisp¹. More recently, he has developed Context-oriented programming, with Robert Hirschfeld. His past involvements include specification and implementation of the languages Gilgul and Lava, and the design and application of the JMangler framework for load-time transformation of Java class files. He has also implemented ContextL, the first programming language extension for Context-oriented Programming based on

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, and aspect-oriented extensions for CLOS. He is furthermore the initiator and lead of Closer, an open source project that provides a compatibility layer for the CLOS MOP across multiple

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implementations. He has also co-organized numerous workshops on Unanticipated Software Evolution, Aspect-Oriented Programming, Object Technology for Ambient Intelligence, Lisp, and redefinition of computing. He has a Ph.D. degree from the

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Notes

Dynamically Scoped Functions as the Essence of AOP
OOP 2003 Workshop on Object-Oriented Language Engineering for the Post-Java Era, Darmstadt, Germany, July 22, 2003; published in ACM SIGPLAN Notices Volume 38, Issue 8 (August 2003), ACM Press

Bibliography

* ''JMangler-A Powerful Back-End for Aspect-Oriented Programming'' (with Günter Kniesel and Michael Austermann), Chapter 15 of ''Aspect-Oriented Software Development'' by Robert E. Filman, Tzilla Elrad, Siobhán Clarke, and Mehmet Aksit,

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, 2005,
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, University of

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