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Exercises in Programming Style, 2nd Edition
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Exercises in Programming Style, 2nd Edition

by Cristina Videira Lopes
July 2020
Intermediate to advanced
360 pages
7h 8m
English
Chapman and Hall/CRC
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CHAPTER 20

Plugins

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20.1Constraints

The problem is decomposed using some form of abstraction (procedures, functions, objects, etc.).

All or some of those abstractions are physically encapsulated into their own, usually pre-compiled, packages. Main program and each of the packages are compiled independently. These packages are loaded dynamically by the main program, usually in the beginning (but not necessarily).

Main program uses functions/objects from the dynamically loaded packages, without knowing which exact implementations will be used. New implementations can be used without having to adapt or recompile the main program.

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