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, threads, 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.

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Go To Statement Considered Harmful. The classic repudiation of spaghetti code by Edsger Dijkstra.
The Daily WTF - Curious Perversions In Information Technology

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