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I've led the development of three major tools for software developers.
Each tool was developed in cooperation with an active user community
and all three continue to be used extensively today.
Most Innovative Java Product or
Technology: AspectJ 1.0.6
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JavaWorld 2003 Editors' Choice Awards
AspectJ took innovative research into Aspect Oriented Programming and delivered
it in a package that was understandable and usable by Java programmers. Three
books and numerous articles in both the academic and technical press have been
written about this system. More significantly, AspectJ is in use in production
systems by many leading companies. I am a co-designer of the AspectJ language
and led the development work on the project up through the AspectJ-1.1 release.
A stunning
example of what's possible is Jython ... an extraordinary tour de force.
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Jon Udel, Infoworld, March 2003
Jython was one of
the first and remains one of the most
popular scripting languages for the Java platform. The first job
posting listing JPython as a required skill came in October 1998, one
year after the first public release. Since then, three books
and dozens of articles have been written about Jython. Jython is
frequently cited as compelling evidence that the JVM is an effective
platform for languages other than Java when making comparisons to
Microsoft's CLR. Here is my personal account of the creation of Jython.
Numeric Python took the strong support
for numeric arrays provided by special purpose languages such as Matlab
and provided them to Python developers in a way that was seamlessly
integrated with the rest of the Python language. It is used by
scientists and engineers in both academic and commercial environments
to
drive numeric simulations and to analyze numeric data. My personal
account of the creation of Numeric Python is part of the story of Jython.
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