spaghetti sauce

n : any of numerous sauces for spaghetti or other kinds of pasta

[syn: {pasta sauce}]

spaghetti code

A pejorative term for code with a complex and

tangled {control structure}, especially one using many

{GOTOs}, {exceptions}, or other "unstructured" branching

constructs. The synonym "kangaroo code" has been reported,

doubtless because such code has so many jumps in it.

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(1997-02-17)