The design guideline avoid dependency cycles among modules was ļ¬rst alluded to by Parnas in 1978. Many tools have since been built to detect cyclic dependencies among a programā...
Many authors have implied dependency cycles are widespread among the classes of object-oriented software systems. Proponents of the design principle Avoid cyclic dependencies amon...
Concurrency control in Smalltalk is based on locks and is therefore notoriously diļ¬cult to use. Even though some implementations provide high-level constructs, these add complexi...