Why recompilation of dependent code is considered bad design?

I am reading a book C++ Software Design by Klaus Iglberger. In the book, the ...

Good class design: dependency vs duplication?

Lets say we have a class( My_Func_Dec ) which models a 'function header declaration' as ...

Designing Message class in Java

I'm writing a class for Message. Message comes with Header and Payload.

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Can you implement “object-oriented” programming without the class keyword?

Say we want to provide an abstraction of an "account" in a bank. Here's one ...

Hardcoding strings that will never change

So, in my efforts to write a program to conjugate verbs (algorithmically, not through a ...

OOP design for conditional event processing queue

This will be in C++11, but the object design should be rather agnostic.

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Architecture design for Java servlet that triggers work (for sending push notifications)

I'm designing a push notification server (for pushing notification via APNS and Google servers) and ...

What are the most used pattern to manage a lot of interconnected parameters?

I recently start to work on an application that drive different measurement device.

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An approach to multilingual db design

My boss is planning on a new db and wants to support multilingual data in ...

Instantiating a set of Objects from information in File

Let’s say I have four classes A,B,C,D.

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