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[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's beyond spaghetti code. We need a new word for it: Cthulhu code

[–] franzfurdinand@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Codethulhu. Though that name isn't mine. I grabbed it from an old story about a company that kept a code base composed exclusively of decompiled Java.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] franzfurdinand@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
[–] marcos@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There's an entity in the Cthullu-verse that turns everybody that looks at it crazy because of its sheer complexity, isn't there?

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 week ago

Sounds kinda like my psychiatric history