When we added C/C++ to Sonargraph our work was heavily influenced by John Lakos famous book “Large Scale C++ Design”. In this book Mr. Lakos presented a solid system to define the architecture of C++ systems based on components. A component in the most simple case is the combination of a header file and a source file, e.g. User.h and User.cpp. The header declares all elements that can be used from outside of the component, while the source file contains the implementation of the functionality. This unites the header and the source file into a logical component, that is better suited for dependency analysis.
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