What makes code legacy?

Question

I have heard many developers refer to code as \"legacy\". Most of the time it is code that has been written by someone who no longer works on the project. What is it that ma

Answer 1

What is it that makes code, legacy code?

As with plain legacy, when the author is dead or missing, you as a heir get all or some of his code.

You shed some tears and try to figure out what to do with all this rubbish.