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Quote: a module should hide a design decision instead of dividing a program into major steps; information hiding
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separate a module's interface specification from its implementation
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information hiding
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program module as encapsulation
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In the first decomposition [of a KWIC index production system] the criterion used … [like a flowchart. ... The second decomposition was made using "information hiding" [Parnas, IFIP 1971] as a criterion. The modules no longer correspond to steps … the system. … Each module in the second decomposition is characterized … definition was chosen to reveal as little as … Google-1 Google-2
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Quote: a module's interface or definition should not reveal its inner workings
Topic: separate a module's interface specification from its implementation (86 items)
Topic: information hiding (50 items)
Topic: program module as encapsulation (28 items)