Spaghetti inheritance
[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 spaghetti code.
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