[colug-432] Great moments in computer science

[Rob Funk]

R P Herrold wrote:
> http://www.safetyresearch.net/blog/articles/toyota-unintended-acceleration-and-big-bowl-%E2%80%9Cspaghetti%E2%80%9D-code
> 
> Toyota had more than 10,000 global variables.
> 
> “And in practice, five, ten, okay, fine. 10,000, no, we're done. It is
> not safe, and I don't need to see all 10,000 global variables to know
> that that is a problem,” Koopman testified.

Too bad Toyota is the only company we have even this much information
about. The hope is that others are better (by how much?), but for all
we know the others are worse.