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Latest revision as of 18:04, 21 April 2016
Spaghetti code is a pejorative phrase for source code that has a complex and tangled control structure, especially one using many GOTO statements, exceptions, threads, or other "unstructured" branching constructs.
Description
It is named such because program flow is conceptually like a bowl of spaghetti, i.e. twisted and tangled.
Spaghetti code can be caused by several factors, such as continuous modifications by several people over a long life cycle.
Structured programming
Structured programming greatly decreases the incidence of spaghetti code.
See also
- Code refactoring
- Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
- Goto
- Go To Statement Considered Harmful
- Software engineering
- Structured programming
External links
- Spaghetti code @ Wikipedia
