> Of course, we should try and avoid writing spaghetti code if we can. But there are problems that are so ill-specified that any serious attempt to solve them r

> Of course, we should try and avoid writing spaghetti code if we can. But there are problems that are so ill-specified that any serious attempt to solve them results in just that. Can you elaborate or do you have an example? Based on just the above, I disagree - I'd say it's the job of the programmer to make sure that the problem is well-specified and that they can write maintainable code.