One chap at my last place had a crusade against the global variables littered throughout the code base. By gods did he fight the good fight. After what must'v

One chap at my last place had a crusade against the global variables littered throughout the code base. By gods did he fight the good fight. After what must've been a good 2 years of active bitching and pruning, a new product was developed by a sub team without him - to be considered the pinnacle of tech that the team could produce. Look at this - just a single global variable!!! Amazing! The progress! Just that one global Dictionary<string,object> which contained everything the various classes would ever want, all easily grabbed with nothing more than a string and a quick cast into whatever the actual type was. Magic