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Symptoms 

• Quick demonstration code that became operational

• “Lone Ranger” programmer (who was that masked man?)

• Obsolete or scanty documentation

• 50% of maintenance spent on system rediscovery

• Hesitant Programmer Syndrome

  • More likely to break it than extend it
  • Easier to just rewrite it

• Cannot be reused

  • System software and COTS packages can’t be upgraded
  • Performance cannot be optimized

• User work arounds

Development AntiPattern: Spaghetti Code

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