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

Preserving legacy code is not so much an academic ideal as it is keeping code that works, no matter how poorly. In many conservative enterprise situations, that would be considered more practical than throwing it away and starting again from scratch. Better the devil you know...