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

Quite honestly legacy code is any code, framework, api, of other software construct thta's not "cool" anymore. For example COBOL is unanimously regarded as legacy while APL is not. Now one can also make the case that COBOL is consideed legacy and APL not because it has about 1m times the install base as APL. However, if you say that you need to work on APL code the reply would not be "oh no, that legacy stuff" but rather "oh my god, guess you won't be doing anything for the next century" see the difference?