Broader Impact On Software Engineering
Even beyond the connection with design by contract, CQS is considered by its adherents to have a simplifying effect on a program, making its states (via queries) and state changes (via commands) more comprehensible in a manner reminiscent of how Edsger Dijkstra's admonition against gotos did the same for control flow.
CQS is well-suited to the object-oriented methodology, but can also be applied outside of object-oriented programming. There is nothing inherently object-oriented about the separation of side effects and return values, and so CQS can be profitably applied to any programming paradigm that requires reasoning about side effects.
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