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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