antipattern
See also: anti-pattern
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anti- + pattern, coined by Andrew Koenig in 1995.
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antipattern (plural antipatterns)
- (software engineering) A design pattern that may be commonly used, but is ineffective or counterproductive in practice.
- 2004, Eric Freeman, Elisabeth Robson, Bert Bates, Kathy Sierra, Head First Design Patterns, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 612:
- If a Design Pattern gives you a general solution to a recurring problem in a particular context, then what does an anti-pattern give you? An Anti-Pattern tells you how to go from a problem to a BAD solution.
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a design pattern that may be commonly used, but is ineffective or counterproductive in practice
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- anti-pattern on Wikipedia.Wikipedia