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> the principal that a bit of code should care as little as possible about things it's not about

Can you find/quote where that principle comes from? I'm genuinely curious.



I think it is mostly based on OOP paradigm, like principle of least knowledge.


It's a motivation for things like OOP, Generics, and macro's.




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