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Therefore, it is desirable for us to try and minimize the cognitive distance between artifacts and their descriptions!
The principle may be stated formally as if it were a Newtonian Law of sorts:
/J
The likelihood of keeping all or part of a software artifact consistent with any corresponding text that describes it, is inversely proportional to the square of the cognitive distance between them.
A less verbose, less pompous description would be simply: Out of sight; out of mind!
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