spaghetti code

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spaghetti code - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  spaghetti code
  kangaroo code
  
     <programming> 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.
  
     [Jargon File]
  
     (1997-02-17)
  

spaghetti code - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  spaghetti code
   n.
  
     Code with a complex and tangled control structure, esp. one using
  many
     GOTOs, exceptions, or other `unstructured' branching constructs.
     Pejorative. The synonym kangaroo code has been reported, doubtless
     because such code has so many jumps in it.