Editorial domain specific aspect languages

Most research in the AOSD community focuses on general-purpose aspect languages. Unfortunately, the trend towards ever more expressive languages has a major drawback: general-purpose aspect languages (GPALs) are losing their purposefullness. In the extreme, pointcut expressions, for instance, become Turing-complete queries. It seems that along the road a turn was taken, leading astray from simple and concise aspects. As a result, aspects are becoming increasingly complex to specify and their impact on the base code is getting more difficult to control, although these specifications are at the heart of aspect- orientation.