On a 'buzzword'

Parnas, D. L. (1974). On a 'buzzword': Hierarchical structure. Proceedings of IFIP Congress 74.

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Book chapter

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Review or monograph

Year

1974

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• Hierarchical Decomposability
  • The property is about interaction structure, not about diagrammatic convention, a distinction Parnas (1974) made sharp in his analysis of the difference between hierarchical-looking software and hierarchical-behaving software.

    This sourceNorth-Holland. Distinguishes several distinct meanings of "hierarchical structure" in operating-system design, separating the diagrammatic appearance of a hierarchy from the empirical interaction structure that licenses level-at-a-time analysis.

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