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Antipattern

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A design pattern that may be commonly used, but is ineffective or counterproductive in practice.

    "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."

Etymology

From anti- + pattern, coined by Andrew Koenig in 1995.

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