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Discover LudwigThe word 'anti-pattern' is correct and can be used in written English.
It is a noun used to describe a solution to a problem that initially appears promising but ultimately leads to more problems. For example, "Despite appearing to provide an easy fix, the anti-pattern we chose to deal with the issue caused additional problems."
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anti-pattern
noun
Alternative spelling of antipattern
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Certain dances actually had an anti-pattern, a larky combination of, perhaps, one person dancing with a dress form, another, in Japanese costume, sitting behind a plastic screen, and so on.
There's almost an anti-pattern".
This is a security anti-pattern.
In other words, prematurely optimizing for cost, scale, or uptime is an anti-pattern.
They adapted the approach to look for refactorings that can reduce four types of anti-pattern; lazy class, long parameter list, spaghetti code, and speculative generality.
Abbes et al. ([2011]) adopted the concept of anti-pattern, which, like the concept of code smell, presents "poor" solutions to recurring design problems.
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This racket of code smells is sometimes called Anti-Patterns.
Knowing who you, the user, are — and your gloriously paradoxical, constantly evolving brain, chock full of patterns and anti-patterns alike — enables us to design for you.
Refactorings, which are behavior preserving changes are often performed to remove anti-patterns from software systems.
This paper proposes a set of Ontological Anti-Patterns for Ontology-Driven Conceptual Modeling.
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