Visualizing Spaghetti Code

Is a picture of a computer program really worth a 1000 words? HP seems to think so.

Making Sense of Spaghetti Code
discusses the visual representation of source code as a marketing tool for their consulting services.  Being from California, the budget cutting complaint:

because there aren’t enough programmers who know the Cobol language used in the state’s payroll software

is pretty scary. The urban (programming) myth that there are still more lines of Cobol in use than any other language may actually be true. Scarier still!

HP's Legacy Application Transformation and Visual Intelligence Tools were reported in April: SOA picture worth 1,000 words for HP.

NDepend also has visual representations of code structure and dependencies that makes pretty pictures of .NET code:

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