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From: dat18@mystefix.liu.se (Dat18)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Global variables
Message-ID: <774@mystefix.liu.se>
Date: 27 Mar 88 01:30:36 GMT
References: <QWGHNly00Xc=V0s05X@andrew.cmu.edu>
Organization: CIS Dept, Univ of Linkoping, Sweden
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> What is the big deal about not declaring your variables global? At Carnegie
> Mellon this is a big deal, but I see that Borland and other programmers have
> developed their programs using global variables.  Is it just the different
> approach or is Carnegie Mellon trying to prove something by not using global
> variables?  What is so wrong with using global variables?

Well, everybody knows that massive use of global variables 
leads to slower code.
That should settle it!