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Re:Ask HN: What's the largest amount of bad code you have ev... by TickleSteve on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @07:10AM (#18449250)
(terminology nazi mode)

"... is an indication that the software design isn't (very) decoupled ".

You can be modular without being properly decoupled from the other modules.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the largest amount of bad code you have ev... by danmaz74 on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @06:28PM (#18455266)
Hmmm... you have a point, but then, shouldn't it be "decoupled into modules"?
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Re:Ask HN: What's the largest amount of bad code you have ev... by mdcb on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @12:18PM (#18451571)
But then are your modules really modular?
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Re:Ask HN: What's the largest amount of bad code you have ev... by avisser on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @12:33PM (#18451739)
In a C/C++ world, a module is usually defined as a file/.dll/.so on disk. So highly-coupled modules are still modules.
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