Meanings
present singular third person despaghettifies · participle present despaghettifying · participle past despaghettified · past despaghettified · alternative de-spaghettify
- transitivecomputingTo refactor spaghetti code.
You could do, but I need to despaghettify the code first.
3 more examples
My program is not huge <5000 lines, but it has been hacked about since 1978, with dire results. I get a bad headache trying to follow the logic. I would be happy to upload and then download the despaghettified code so as not to infringe licence regulations. Please help!
1993 January 19, ro...@ruchem.ru.ac.za, “spaghetti”, in comp.lang.fortran (Usenet)I just wanted to give kudos to the new(ish) PrepModules feature. I finally got around to implementing it, and it allowed me to considerably de-spaghettify some of my scripts. Thanks!
2004 May 17, Chip Seraphine, “PrepModules() rocketh mightily”, in gnu.cfengine.help (Usenet)Still, some examples would be nice. I can't distribute claxmod, as is, 'cause there are passwords hard-coded into it. With a little work, a more "generic" example could be developed that could be used as an example (de-spaghettified, preferably).
2014 May 29, fbkotler, “Re: R.I.P. Nathan Baker”, in alt.lang.asm (Usenet)
Origin
From de- + spaghetti + -fy, compare spaghetti code.
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