Basics of information hiding

• Modularize based on anticipated change

  • Fundamentally different from Brooks’ approach in OS/360 (see old and new MMM)

• Separate interfaces from implementations

  • Implementations capture decisions likely to change
  • Interfaces capture decisions unlikely to change
  • Clients know only interface, not implementation
  • Implementations know only interface, not clients

• Modules are also work assignments

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