I started in 2000 an interesting mind experiment. How would you program if you have only aspects.

I had following main intentions among others:

• Get a deep understanding about the difference between aspects and objects
• Identify what is minimal required for a AOP
• think how you to program in standalone AOP
• learn what is OO and what is AOP in modern GAPL
• perform a total mind wash, to have an "empty" brain aspects

I came to the conclusions, that it is possible to program only with aspects, and one control flow statement.

I decided therefore to write small programs using only pure aop in a subset of aspectJ.
I limited myself to use only:

• The if statement, I could have used the while statement instead.
• The advices and pointcuts
• method calls to empty functions, because it is not possible to advice advices in aspectJ directly.