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Re:The software industry is going through the “disposable pl... by UK-Al05 on Thursday August 20, 2020 @07:41PM (#24230311)
Depends what you mean by legacy.

If you mean well written c or Java code, that is well tested and clean. Then I'd prefer to then a modern JavaScript application without tests.

Legacy to me means applications that has turned into a mess with no tests. This can be a recent application or old.

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Re:The software industry is going through the “disposable pl... by MiroF on Thursday August 20, 2020 @08:02PM (#24230445)
Exactly. BLAS isn't legacy to me, but that web server you wrote in an Excel macro is.
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