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Had me in the first part
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It's beyond spaghetti code. We need a new word for it: Cthulhu code
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.
Sounds atrocious
Aha, found it: https://thedailywtf.com/articles/The_Call_of_Codethulhu
(It's worse than I remember)
There's an entity in the Cthullu-verse that turns everybody that looks at it crazy because of its sheer complexity, isn't there?
Sounds kinda like my psychiatric history