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Date: 16 Sep 92 15:26:20 GMT
From: sampson@cod.nosc.mil  (Charles H. Sampson)
Subject: Using Global Variables
Message-ID: <1992Sep16.152620.9286@nosc.mil>
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In article <15390@suns5.crosfield.co.uk> pdg@crosfield.co.uk (paul goffin)
writes (in an article on Ada compiler pricing):

>So what did I mean by cost?  Well, apart from the training costs
>and the cost of setting up development systems that actually used
>Ada, (New compiler driving scripts, new way of addressing hardware,
>new way of managing "global variables" - Yes, nasty as they are,
>you do sometimes have to use global variables in the real world!)
>there was a nasty shock in the price of the compilers.

     I'd like to hear more about this need to use global variables in
the real world, from Mr. Goffin and anyone else.  I can't remember the
last time I used one in an Ada project, and I think what I do is pretty
real world stuff.  (Well, I do contract to the U. S. Navy, but that's
close.)

				Charlie