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A legacy software to me is whatever the company that employs me says is said legacy software.

Pretty much every business I've worked at to date has had such legacy software, which was inevitably still used in some contexts.

It's not always obvious, because - following with the previous example numbers - only 1-2 Java devs will have to interact with the legacy software again, hence from the perspective of the remaining 98, Cobol doesn't exist anymore.





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