Programmer Humor

Back in the day I made a meme and put it on r/prequelmemes, and then my brother came through to my room a few hours later to show me this meme his friend had sent him... while I still had it open in gimp

The obvious solution is to use Rust's upcoming "spaghetti checker" feature. Once the compiler decides that your code is too messy to be maintainable, it refuses to compile.

thats exactly what the "you get the idea" line meant, i was only giving some examples because if i did itd be literally every language

(also modern c is spaghetti, but old c is even more. legacy code is spaghetti no matter the language)

Spaghetti is all messy and tangled up; spaghetti code is the same.

when the order of execution was obfuscated due to excessive jumps and GOTOs

That's one way to make your code messy and thus achieve spaghetti code.

In general, when some code is very poorly written, it becomes spaghetti code.

It’s more incredibly tangled and highly coupled code. It’s the kinda code where you can’t change anything because it causes a catastrophic cascade of issues. Basically where software engineers throw design out the window and just starting coding random bullshit that “works”

I work in a company that has a old codebse in c with tons of realtime intime stuff that is acessed via a shared memory from the realtime to the non realtime system. Tons of strucs get copied around then typecast to other structs and global variables all over the place. You never know where a variable is written to and where it is also acessed from or if it is just a copy. No assembly but still super obscure.

tbh nor am i, this is becoming vim vs emacs 2.0 isnt it

well, in my country (spain) assembler and assembly are basically used interchangeably, so i do that a lot. will take into account for future posts tho.

Anywhere I’ve actually seen it used , assembler and assembly were pretty much interchangeable. Assembly code is probably technically correct, but you could be writing code for the assembler so nobody will actually be confused. Per your example, you might say “I wrote code in MASM,” to reference a specific assembler. Again nobody that’s actually worked with any of this would bat an eye at the usage.

yea we dont talk about python here

then i must be the pastafari /j

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windows xp kernel included dirty hacks from when ms-dos 6.22 was in active development and not released yet and they might still be there in 10