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The term spaghetti with meatballs is a pejorative term used in computer science to describe a loosely constructed Object-oriented system. Like traditional spaghetti code, the term spaghetti with meatballs is a description of poor coding, usually by a junior-level software engineer, and typically by one whose previous programming experience is exclusively with procedural programming.

Alternatively, it may be the result of a system whose development has transitioned over a long life-cycle.

In this usage, spaghetti describes twisted, tangled and unstructured code, while meatballs describes the use of objects, thrown in for good measure.


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