Oden Eriksson wrote: > > On Wednesdayen den 28 November 2001 16.03, Pierre Fortin wrote: > > > continue proliferating *spaghetti coded* GUI configurators and ignore the > > What exactly is "spaghetti code"?. I never heard that expression before...
An ancient computing term for code which does stuff outside its realm of responsibility... for instance, I can understand why CUPS messes with /etc/hosts' localhost configuration line; but it would make more sense to have a scheme where the networking code is responsible for /etc/hosts. [At least, Till fixed it to *only* change that line instead of overwriting the entire file as 8.1 CUPS does now...] Kinda like if I wrote a Tax program which, as a side-effect, changed your X modeline... Makes for very unstable, unreliable, and unsupportable systems... gee... I just described Winders... :^) Pierre
