Chapter 6. Divide and conquer
The previous chapter presumed that programs typically consist of multiple parts that are segregated in some way. Different areas of functionality may be developed by separate teams, modules are accessed via interfaces and packaged such that they can be replaced, and so on. Over the past few decades, much effort has been spent on syntax and semantics for defining modules in programming languages and on libraries and the infrastructure needed to deploy them. The important question is, how do we go about dividing up a problem in order to successfully solve it?
Rewinding the clock more than 2,000 years, we find one of the earliest practitioners of the governance maxim divide et regna: Julius Caesar. The idea is simple: ...
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