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I'm reading this question while procrastinating on a problem that could have been avoided with better separation of concerns. A bug was reported that when you use our API to do "X", the program leaks memory and eventually crashes. The bug was actually introduced in work on API feature "R". The crashing program didn't even use feature "R"! To the user of the program, there is no reason for these two features to interact. SoC means carrying this separation in the subject area into a separation in the code.

Toph
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2025-03-28 13:50:59 +00:00
Commented Mar 28 at 13:50

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