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Frank Zhang
Frank Zhang

Reputation: 810

What does Demeter mean in Law Of Demeter

What is the Demeter mean in Law of Demeter? why does it stands for Least Knowledge Principle as it's Greek goddess?

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DevSolar
DevSolar

Reputation: 70353

There was a project (in 1987) named "Demeter" at the Northeastern University in Boston. It concerned itself with a hardware description language named "Zeus", and that is how they came up with the name "Demeter" (Zeus' sister).

Within this project, the "Law of Demeter" was being coined.

(Source: Wikipedia.DE on Law of Demeter referring to http://www.bradapp.com/docs/demeter-intro.html)

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