Symptoms

• A deep class hierarchy. You have to follow 7, 8, 9 or more base classes until you reach "Object"
• No consitent namespace or package concept
• Class names, namespace names and membership of classes in namespaces are selected for purely technical reasons and have no equivalent in the business domain
• Every class exposes lots of public properties and methods
• Every class on every level can collaborate with every other class in the system

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