In the Defense of Spaghetti Code (2013)

Re:In the Defense of Spaghetti Code (2013) by kjeetgill on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @02:42AM (#20504905)

Huh. I made the comment about Turing Completeness being "low-bar" from the perspective of Turing tarpits [0] or NAND universality (which needs memory/flip-flops). It seems to be easy enough that languages like Brainfuck can be Turing complete with a handful of elements. So much so that C++ templates or extended regexs seem to accidentally be found to be Turning Complete.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_tarpit

> In any Turing complete language, it is possible to write any computer program, so in a very rigorous sense nearly all programming languages are equally capable.

You seem to have more history on the matter than I do, so let me ask a question instead trying to defend that idea. Why did anyone think Structured Programming wouldn't be? They must have had reasons to suspect it. I also don't know much of the history of Structured Programming apart from "Goto Considered Harmful", so pointers would be great.

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Re:In the Defense of Spaghetti Code (2013) by mannykannot on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @08:29AM (#20506178)

I don't think those programmers, who claimed that structured code was insufficient, had thought about it in those terms. They were probably proud of their skills and the programs they wrote, and tried to defend it as the right way to do things, as it seemed obvious to them, from their experience, that it was.

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