Spaghetti Code

This smell refers to an unmaintainable, incomprehensible code without any structure. Spaghetti Code does not exploit and prevents the use of object-orientation mechanisms and concepts.

Reference

W. Brown, R. Malveau, H. McCormick, T. Mowbray, “AntiPatterns: Refactoring Software, Architectures, and Projects in Crisis”. John Wiley & Sons, 1998.