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TickleSteve on Nov 14, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: What's the largest amount of bad code you ...

(terminology nazi mode)

"... is an indication that the software design isn't (very) decoupled ".

You can be modular without being properly decoupled from the other modules.

danmaz74 on Nov 14, 2018 | [–]

Hmmm... you have a point, but then, shouldn't it be "decoupled into modules"?

mdcb on Nov 14, 2018 | [–]

But then are your modules really modular?

avisser on Nov 14, 2018 | [–]

In a C/C++ world, a module is usually defined as a file/.dll/.so on disk. So highly-coupled modules are still modules.

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