The Nested Conditional Nightmare

Technical debt Refactoring Legacy code Spaghetti code Code quality Clean code Code horror If-else Conditionals Nested logic
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The Nested Conditional Nightmare
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The infinite screaming void of nested conditionals! This meme perfectly captures that moment when you inherit legacy code with 7+ levels of nested if-else statements. Each face gets progressively more horrified as the conditional logic deepens, just like your sanity drains with each tab of indentation. The "else if" chain stretching into infinity is basically the coding equivalent of Dante's circles of hell. And let's be honest, we've all written that one emergency fix at 2 AM that turned into an eldritch horror of branching logic that future-you will absolutely despise.

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