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who wants pasta in their computer?

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[–] Redkey 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Assembler, BASIC, Old C code, Cobol...

...Pascal, Fortran, Prolog, Lisp, Modern C code, PHP, Java, Python, C++, Lua, JavaScript, C#, Rust...

The list is infinite.

Show me a language in which it is impossible to write spaghetti code, and I'll show you someone who can't recognize spaghetti code when it's written in one of their favourite languages.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

great, now the compiler wont let me modify my programs (i really should get better at coding because i seem to only know to do spaghetti)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

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)