Modular programming can let one software module be written with little knowledge of the code inside another module.

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"Modular programming can let one software module be written with little knowledge of the code inside another module."

Parnas describes modular programming techniques that allow one module to be written with little knowledge of another and presents modularization as a way to improve system comprehensibility.

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Source title On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules

Source authors David L. Parnas

Source year 1971

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