I now knew that if I didn't pay attention to code quality, at some point there would be a late night where I'd be fishing through a mess of spaghetti looking for the proverbial bad meatball.

现在我知道了，如果不注意代码质量，那么迟早它们会给我造成一团乱麻。

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If he'd really gotten into spaghetti Bolognese, say, or kept coming onstage holding foot-long meatball subs.

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