"value":"\n <p>How do you define legacy code?<\/p>\n\n<p>Code that was written by someone else?<\/p>\n\n<p>Code that doesn't have tests?<\/p>\n\n<p>Any code that has been released to production?<\/p>\n\n<p>Code that's more than a day old?<\/p>\n\n<p>In a talk I recently watched, the speaker suggested that any code written more than thirty minutes ago is legacy code.<\/p>\n\n<p>Once you've written some code and left it for half an hour, you need to re-read it to remember and re-learn what the code does and decide how you want to implement your next requirement.<\/p>\n\n<p>This is the same approach for code that was written longer ago or written by someone else.<\/p>\n\n<p>What do you think?<\/p>\n\n ",
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"processed":"\n <p>How do you define legacy code?<\/p>\n\n<p>Code that was written by someone else?<\/p>\n\n<p>Code that doesn't have tests?<\/p>\n\n<p>Any code that has been released to production?<\/p>\n\n<p>Code that's more than a day old?<\/p>\n\n<p>In a talk I recently watched, the speaker suggested that any code written more than thirty minutes ago is legacy code.<\/p>\n\n<p>Once you've written some code and left it for half an hour, you need to re-read it to remember and re-learn what the code does and decide how you want to implement your next requirement.<\/p>\n\n<p>This is the same approach for code that was written longer ago or written by someone else.<\/p>\n\n<p>What do you think?<\/p>\n\n ",