Packet 11: Bonus 14
Answer the following about difficult-to-read “spaghetti code.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Spaghetti coding complicates the process of finding and removing these defects in a program. Admiral Grace Hopper joked that a moth stuck in a computer was the “first actual case of” one of these defects being found.
ANSWER: computer bugs [reject “glitch”]
[10h] The SPAG restructuring tool helps unscramble the notoriously-spaghettified source code of this programming language’s 66 and 77 releases. This language’s LINPACK library included benchmarks for early supercomputers.
ANSWER: Fortran
[10m] Under the Pasta Theory of Programming, the term “ravioli code” refers to the overuse of classes to define these entities. Functional programming contrasts with a programming paradigm “oriented” around these entities.
ANSWER: objects [accept object-oriented]
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