Functions with multiple parameters

Okay, it’s time for a survey article. This is the kind of article that I hinted at in If this were a book. The general plan of attack in articles like this will be:

Outline a single simple example of implicit coupling.

Explore solution options in a wide variety of different (types of) programming languages.

This could all go horribly wrong, so please bear with. I have no idea where this might take us. But I haven’t seen this done anywhere else before — not even Martin Fowler has written anything si...