Overused or abused programming techniques

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Published on 2011-01-11T20:49:01Z Indexed on 2011/01/11 21:00 UTC
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Are there any techniques in programming that you find to be overused (IE used way more excessively than what they should be) or abused, or used a bit for everything, while not being a really good solution to many of the problems which people attempt to solve with it.

It could be regular expressions, some kind of design pattern or maybe an algorithm, or something completely different. Maybe you think people abuse multiple inheritance etc.

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