data passing

Hi all,

I need your professional opinion about this (the project is C++ but it
doesn't realy matter):

We handle big structs of data. We also write them to files for use by
other teams.
Here it goes - we use these files also as a means of passing the data
to other stages in our own program.
Why we do so? Because some central modules were developed as stand
alone modules, using input files. Then they were joined to the
program.
As it turned out, passing data via files proved contagious, for now
it's our main system for passing data.

There is something appealing with files, it feels that they loosen up
the need of having strict interfaces among modules.


I would like to here what you say about that. Pros and cons.

Thanks
iu2

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