# 2. Anti-Patterns

Some of the software development practices, had not stood the test of time. Despite that, some are still being used today by developers everywhere.

“An anti-pattern (or antipattern) is a common response to a recurring problem that is usually ineffective and risks being highly counterproductive” (from Wikipedia)

Since almost the beginning of the NAV Design Patterns project, we talked about documenting the anti-patterns - but never found the time. Until, spontaneously, the April 1st 2015 article had practically wrote itself in a couple of hours, with priceless contributions coming from Andreas, Elly, Nikola - and last but not least, waldo.

Best regards,

Bogdana Botez

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