[jacobush]

The Toyota computer is like a super computer compared to old mainframes. IIRC the Toyota program had 10k global variables updated by spaghetti C code. So you had a lot of space, enough to shoot yourself with C code. Old mainframe code in contrast often operated on records in a batch fashion, with a pretty clear input and output.

Of course, the antipattern on enterprise code comparable to thousands of global variables in C code, is to have thousands of columns in hundreds, or thousands even, of database tables, all intertwined and used only God knows where.

[monocasa]

AFAIR, the were also autogenning code from a Matlab model of the engine, and that's where the 10k globals thing is from. Like yeah there's technically C code that's doing that, but come on.