Originally Posted by AnamNantom
I used to approve client code that accessed API's the company I worked for had. It was all xml based via (usually PHP) and polled the massive database of constantly updating data.
I hope they have programmers updating end users on any updates to it. I found, in a support and consultative role, it was very important that I kept abreast of what the programmers did as they sometimes forgot to update any notes on the version control.
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Not entirely sure what that all means, but when I was working with matlab for engineering calculations and such it was important to have non-global variables so they'd only execute in their specific loops. Was interesting when someone declared a persistent global variable...could muck stuff up easily. Allowed us to mostly ignore what people did rather than having to follow them.