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Answer: What is "Orthogonality"?

From Eric S. Raymond's "Art of UNIX programming"

Orthogonality is one of the most important properties that can help make even complex designs compact. In a purely orthogonal design, operations do not have side effects; each action (whether it's an API call, a macro invocation, or a language operation) changes…

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