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who wants pasta in their computer?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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.