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David Parnas

Canadian software engineer

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    Born 1941
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Updated 2026-06-24

David Lorge Parnas is a Canadian early pioneer of software engineering, who developed the concept of information hiding in modular programming, which is an important element of object-oriented programming today. He is also noted for his advocacy of precise documentation.

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