Lasagna Code

Database expert Joe Celko coined the term in 1982, extending the pasta-code metaphor family: where spaghetti code describes tangled, unstructured flow, lasagna code describes excessive, layered abstraction. The "spaghetti code" metaphor had emerged from debates sparked by Edsger Dijkstra's 1968 critique of the GOTO statement. Celko's coinage completed what became known as the "pasta theory of programming," a family of anti-patterns that also includes ravioli code (over-encapsulated objects).