While I don’t know how to answer this question in a single paragraph, I attempted to answer it in a blog post instead: http://blog.ploeh.dk/2012/02/02/LooseCouplingAndTheBigPicture.aspx To summarize, I find that the most important points are: Understanding a loosely coupled code base requires a different mindset. While it’s harder to ‘jump to collaborators’ it should also be … Read more
For this, I need an interface and maybe a container for resolving my instances. But how you do this in C++? In the same way. The difference is that where you “program to an interface” in C#, you “program to a base class” in C++. Additionally, you have extra tools in C++ that you do … Read more
Consider a simple shopping cart application that uses a CartContents class to keep track of the items in the shopping cart and an Order class for processing a purchase. The Order needs to determine the total value of the contents in the cart, it might do that like so: Tightly Coupled Example: public class CartEntry … Read more