Modular Decomposition

Module boundaries should hide design decisions that are likely to change (Parnas 1972). Combining that principle with literate programming (Knuth 1984) yields documentation that tracks the modular structure of the code.

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References

Knuth, Donald E. 1984. “Literate Programming.” The Computer Journal 27 (2): 97–111.

Parnas, David L. 1972. “On the Criteria to Be Used in Decomposing Systems into Modules.” Communications of the ACM 15 (12): 1053–58.