pyramid of doom

English

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Noun

pyramid of doom (plural pyramids of doom)

1. (programming, informal) The presence of many levels of nested indentation in source code, making it difficult for a person to read.
   • 2022, Enrico Buonanno, Functional Programming in C#, Second edition, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

     It turns out that one way we can look at Bind is as a recipe against the pyramid of doom.