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He missed that Notes on the Synthesis of Form inspired the software design perspectives of coupling and cohesion
by readthenotes 6y ago
He missed that Notes on the Synthesis of Form inspired the software design perspectives of coupling and cohesion
- stareatgoats 6y agosource?
- ics 6y agoThey may be referring to the mention on C2. ----- (https://wiki.c2.com/?NotesOnTheSynthesisOfForm https://wiki.c2.com/?NotesOnTheSynthesisOfForm) I'm struck by the resemblance between the rule of CouplingAndCohesion and Alexander's formal treatment of the "main" problem of design - hierarchical decomposition of the set M of misfit variables (the "things which might possibly break") into subsets which maximize the connections between their components (high cohesion) but also are minimally connected with each other (low coupling) In other words, the issue of CouplingAndCohesion isn't just central to software design - it is central to all design, if Alexander is to be believed.
- readthenotes 6y agoAn article in Ieee's Software taht included a reflection by Constantine on where he was inspired (by reading Notes on...) I appear to have thrown the article away. But it was 2012+/-5 years.