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18th May 2008 - Link Blog

AOP aspect of JavaScript with Dojo. Fantastic post—concisely explains Aspect Oriented Programming, then shows how Dojo’s dojox.lang.aspect brings AOP to JavaScript, including some really useful built-in aspects for logging, profiling and more. Aspects are like Python decorators on steroids.

Posted 18th May 2008 at 10:45 am

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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 18th May 2008.

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