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One important facet of effective object-oriented design is encapsulation. Encapsulation hides your classes’ inner details from the outside world.

The story begins in 1979 when Bjarne was conducting research at Bell Labs, primarily using C language. C language is powerful, but Bjarne felt it was "too hardcore"; managing complexity in large ...