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spaghetti inheritance
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[encountered among users of object-oriented languages that
use inheritance, such as Smalltalk] A convoluted
class-subclass graph, often resulting from carelessly
deriving subclasses from other classes just for the sake of
reusing their code. Coined in a (successful) attempt to
discourage such practice, through guilt-by-association with