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 ## Dev
 
+* Orthogonality: concepts are independent or irrelevant to eachother. Examples:
+
+** StarMod Core has no notion of applications build on top of it e.g. StarMod Leds
+
+** No notion of HTML in c(++) code
+
+** Effects have no notion of the type of projection or fixture it is applied to
+
 * Minimize the use of static / global variables in Classes, there are still static class variables which need to be investigated to make non static