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Alex Donnell of NeoMatrix Inc. wrote an article about how engineers can avoid the spaghetti code problem. Now, test your knowledge with this quiz – can you solve the spaghetti code problem?

There aren’t a lot of businesses built around tape cassettes or floppy disks, so a lack of experts who can repair those decades-old technologies is rarely a problem. That’s not the case with Cobol—a ...

SOME programmers call it “spaghetti code”. Though error-strewn, it works—most of the time. It is likely to have been written in an out-of-date language, possibly more than one of them. It has grown by ...