spaghetti code

Big ball of mud, a piece of software with no perceivable architecture

Write-only language, a language with such bizarre syntax that resulting code is incomprehensible

Code smell – Characteristic of source code that hints at a quality problem

The Elements of Programming Style – 1978 book by Brian W. Kernighan and P. J. Plauger

International Obfuscated C Code Contest – Competition to produce pleasingly obscure C code

software brittleness – Description of how difficult software is to modify

Software maintenance – Modification of software after delivery

Technical debt – Qualitative description of the cost to maintain a system attributable to its low quality

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