I am ashamed to reveal this, but I have no idea what you are talking about.

You are talking about ortogonality of big components that you can treat as black box objects that you access thru methods.

No, I don't. I say that the concepts are similar at times. And I do not limit myself to big components, I even mention subroutines (which is to me usually a small one).

The rest... I am sure that is correct in itself. I don't really see what it has to do with orthogonality, or how that affects the validity of black box designs. Orthogonality to me has nothing to do with how a language is to be constructed, or how it is constructed. It is a way to design programs and projects. Although *writing* an interpreter for a language can of course benefit from this principle.

If I am simply stupid here, feel free to explain and elaborate, so even I can understand. :) And so I know if I should give you ++ or -- *grin*.

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