Orchid XP v7 wrote:
> My take on it is that BASIC [the *original* language]

aka "Dartmouth BASIC".  Just so's ya know. :-)

> As to whether modularity is orthogonal or not... I hadn't really thought 
> about it.

It's orthogonal, but usually modular programming languages are 
structured. Structured programming is sort of like modular programming 
in the small - you know this is a while loop and you don't really need 
to look inside unless you need the details, because control flow won't 
enter or leave it.  Modular programming is sort of structured 
programming for data. :-)

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