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Legacy is an overused toxic word in Software Engineering. In this essay I argue the problem is not software, it’s people, as usual. What is legacy is not the code, but the way we look at it, and that breeds helplessness and costly rewrites. There is another way! How Code Becomes Legacy People call some code legacy when they are not happy with it. Usually it simply means they did not write it, so…
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