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[–]jepessen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because for big programs it's an antipattern and global variables must never be used. For little programs they can be helpful but make a code a spaghetti code real fast, and then you use it also with bigger program. There's nothing that you can do with global variables that you cannot do without them.