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Date: 22 Sep 92 12:19:55 GMT
From: cis.ohio-state.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!firth@uunet.uu.net  (Robert Firth)
Subject: Re: Using Global Variables
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In article <1992Sep21.205841.9148@saifr00.cfsat.honeywell.com> walls@saifr00.cf
sat.honeywell.com (Gerald Walls) writes:

>not in real-time embedded applications where every upgrade
>requires more and more functionality on the exact same hardware
>the original program was written for years ago.  this is known
>as "the real world."

No, that is not the real world.  It is an artificial world created by
an insane contracting and procurement system that has been designed to
do everything except solve the real problem, and do it as expensively
as possible.

"Oh, it's 2167 this, and 2167 that, and 2167 all the way,
 But it's 'get it done', Mr Atkins, when the band begins to play"

(with apologies to Rudyard Kipling, but I remember when the boats had
to sail south, and a lot of commercial minis were quietly carried
aboard, and the L20 million development of the "military" version
just softly and suddenly vanished away)