Shifting meanings: "Spaghetti Code"?

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Thu Aug 16 12:30:16 CDT 2007


Brian Knittel wrote:
>> "... It is also easier to debug because it does not use the 
>> structures of nested if-then-else statements known as spaghetti code 
>> popular in conventional programming languages."
> ...
>> When did the meaning change?
> 
> It hasn't. Let's just say that the quoted speaker has 
> his own take on things.
> 
> http://www.vsmerlot.com/
> 
> Click the "Wasn't the GOTO" link to see what he's
> talking about.
> 
> Then take a look at the QuickSort example, to see how he's
> brought new clarity to the ghastly confusion of the
> usual coded implementation.

?!

Yuck!  Maybe a hard-core mathematician would want to write code like 
that, but not me!

Peace...  Sridhar


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