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Partially agree:

It seems to me that he would think interfaces between major subsystems would be architect level while any database table that only gets used within a single sub system is implementation level.

Trying to be careful as I realize HN is the kind of forum where he or a close friend of him might show up to correct me :-)




Brooks famously showed up to correct himself: the book advocates against information hiding but he later changed his mind and said encapsulation was a good thing.


Interesting. Do you have a link or reference for that?




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