Software Engineering would progress a lot farther as a discipline if we weren't ...

tophat02 on July 2, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Stonebraker: Send Relational DBMSs to the Home for...

Software Engineering would progress a lot farther as a discipline if we weren't so preoccupied with throwing out the "old" to make room for the "new".

My definition of "legacy" code: code that is field-tested, has a low defect rate, and generally works.