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