Re: [aspectj-users] announcing abc 1.0.0

[Oege de Moor <Oege.de.Moor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the supportive comments, Russ! I'd like to mention that
abc is not just based in the Computing Lab at Oxford; it is a joint
effort between McGill, Aarhus and Oxford.

On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Russell Miles wrote:

> What a community! I was lucky enough to get hold of an early release of
> the software myself and to its credit it worked beautifully against my
> example code from the AspectJ Cookbook. Well done Ganesh and all the
> guys in the computing lab!
>
> We all now have an opportunity to work with the actual AspectJ language
> itself, I don't know of any other languages that have such a benefit.
> With this opportunity and Adrian's team carefully moving ajc forward I
> think a door to a very bright future for AspectJ has been opened wide.
>
> Russ
> www.aspectjcookbook.com
>
>
> Oege de Moor wrote:
>
> > We are pleased to announce the availability of abc 1.0.0,
> > an extensible, optimising compiler for the full AspectJ
> > language.
> >
> > abc is available under the GNU Lesser General Public
> > License (LGPL) from the following website:
> >
> >  http://aspectbench.org
> >
> > For developers, abc offers:
> > - alternative error messages
> > - fast code
> > - support through email lists
> >   and public bugzilla
> >
> > For researchers, abc offers:
> > - an extensible frontend based
> >   on Polyglot
> > - an extensible backend based
> >   on Soot
> > - an ideal platform for experiments
> >   with new features and optimisations
> >
> > This is the first public release of abc, and it fixes many
> > bugs in earlier pre-releases. It has much benefited from the
> > advice of the AspectJ language designers, in particular
> > Adrian Colyer, Erik Hilsdale, Jim Hugunin and Gregor Kiczales.
> > We are also grateful to the authors of Polyglot for their
> > assistance, in particular to Stephen Chong and Nate Nystrom.
> >
> > Full credits for authorship of abc 1.0.0 itself can be found
> > on the above website.
> >
> > There is a low traffic, moderated mailing list where future
> > updates of abc will be announced:
> >
> >    abc-announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > To join this list, send an email to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > with 'subscribe abc-announce' in the body.
> >
> > Enjoy!
> >
> >   The abc team.
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> >
> >
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