Anti Patterns Glossary
Browse 4 anti patterns terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.
4 Anti Patterns Terms
- cargo cult programming
- The practice of copying code, patterns, or rituals from other projects without understanding why they work, hoping to achieve similar results through imitation...
- Exception Driven Development
- A mocking phrase for building systems by layering one special-case exception after another instead of improving the underlying model. In engineering slang,...
- Lot's Wife Anti-Pattern
- A metaphorical anti-pattern where a team keeps looking backward at a system, process, or product it is supposed to be leaving behind, preventing decisive...
- Tarpit
- A system, design, or environment that is easy to enter but difficult to escape because of hidden complexity, lock-in, or endless edge cases. In security, a...
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