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plural antipatterns
(software engineering) A design pattern that may be commonly used, but is ineffective or counterproductive in practice. quotations examples
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.
2004, Eric Freeman, Elisabeth Robson, Bert Bates, Kathy Sierra, Head First Design Patterns, O'Reilly, page 612