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Liskov (engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Guttag (computer science and engineering, also at MIT) present a component- based methodology fo

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Considering that the biggest machines that do the most work are made up of smaller machines and components, it becomes obvious that when a large machine breaks,