> just use stack variables - the C way The problem is that C doesn't offer any resistance to using globals rather than stack variables, which led to much of th

> just use stack variables - the C way The problem is that C doesn't offer any resistance to using globals rather than stack variables, which led to much of the mess that the OOP revolution of the 80s was supposed to address. For every C program that eschews globals, you have a Toyota Camry, whose control systems famously contained "10,000 global variables" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9643204 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9643204