The concept of information hiding came a bit before that, almost 50 years ago, first being described in a paper by David L. Parnas entitled “On the Criteria to

The concept of information hiding came a bit before that, almost 50 years ago, first being described in a paper by David L. Parnas entitled “On the Criteria to Be Used in Decomposing Systems into Modules”. I wrote a blog post earlier this year based on this paper, describing how using the information hiding criterion naturally leads to an improved system structure when compared to using a procedural criterion [1] I'm an advocate for OOP because it greatly favors information hiding and encapsulation, helping to manage the ever-growing complexity of software projects, making "it possible to develop much larger programs than before, maybe 10x larger" (quoted from the linked article) [1] https://thomasvilhena.com/2020/03/a-strategy-for-effective-system-modularization https://thomasvilhena.com/2020/03/a-strategy-for-effective-s...