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who wants pasta in their computer?
Assembler, BASIC, Old C code, Cobol...
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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.
Calling assembler code spaghetti isn't really that fair. I mean granted, everything ends up as "syscall" this and that, but it's still more like one long spaghetti noodle with some meatballs and sauce.
Old C code, written for like microelectronics suffers from it, sure.
But for that gud spaghetti you gotta getti the BASIC and Cobol programs. Thems is good spaghetti.
(And we're going to ignore python right)
ps: you know something you wrote is funny when taken out of context when someone screenshots it and after a while youre sent the screenshot of your message
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
For writing loops, many early BASICs had FOR/NEXT, GOTO [line] and GOSUB [line] and literally nothing else due to space constraints. This begat much spaghetti. Better BASICs had (and have) better things like WHILE and WEND, named subroutines (what a concept!) and egads, no line numbers, which did away with much of that. Unless you were trying to convert a program written for one of the hamstrung dialects anyway, then all bets are off.
Assembly style often reflects the other languages people have learned first, or else it's written to fit space constraints and then spaghettification can actually help with that. (Imagine how the creators of those BASICs crammed their dialect into an 8 or 16K ROM. And thus, like begetteth like.)
C code style follows similarly. It is barely concealed assembly anyway.
COBOL requires a certain kind of masochist to read and write. That's not spaghetti, it's Cthulhu's tentacles. Run.
No need for all that.
You've just got to see my code.
Sometimes I call my colleagues Italians 🤌
(None of them are from Italy, but that pasta!)
Hey! My assembler is actually quite neat and compartmentalized.