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David Parnas
KindPerson
Born1941
StatusAlive
Fieldtheory
Sourceen.wikipedia.org ↗

Defined information hiding — modules should hide a design decision — the principle under every interface.

Created On the Criteria To Be Used in Decomposing Systems into Modules

Wrote 'On the Criteria to Be Used in Decomposing Systems into Modules' (1972) — the information-hiding principle every module system implements.\n\nThe 'program families' concept and the modularization criterion are his; 'the father of software engineering.'

Sources

  1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Parnas