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Spaghetti code

Spaghetti code is a pejorative term for a computer program code with a complex and tangled control structure, especially one using many GOTOs, exceptions, or other "unstructured" branching constructs.

It is named such because program flow tends to look like a bowl of spaghetti, i.e. twisted and tangled. Also called kangaroo code because such code has so many jumps in it.

Spaghetti code is an example of an anti-pattern.

See also: structured programming

External links

• Go To Statement Considered Harmful. The classic repudiation of spaghetti code by Edsger Dijkstra.

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