[hermanhermitage]

I'm not sure its preposterous. Based on what I've read she and her team focussed on teasing out abstraction and modularity features in CLU based on experience building previous large/medium scale software systems.

It doesn't preclude others inventing before, after or at the same time. Nor the same ideas being explored in other fields earlier with other terminology or focus.

I'm sure there is some field of human endeavour that has explored and documented the same ideas in a different context much earlier.