The Pragmatic Programmer: your journey to mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition, 2nd Edition
by David Thomas, Andrew Hunt
Topic 33 | Breaking Temporal Coupling |
“What is temporal coupling all about?”, you may ask. It's about time.
Time is an often ignored aspect of software architectures. The only time that preoccupies us is the time on the schedule, the time left until we ship—but this is not what we're talking about here. Instead, we are talking about the role of time as a design element of the software itself. There are two aspects of time that are important to us: concurrency (things happening at the same time) and ordering (the relative positions of things in time).
We don't usually approach programming with either of these aspects in mind. When people first sit down to design an architecture or write a program, things tend to be linear. That's the way most people ...
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