Preface
“Worldwide, there are well over 200 billion lines of software that are fragmented, redundantly defined, hard to decipher, and highly inflexible . . . organizations run the risk of being mired down by a mountain of legacy code.”
— William Ulrich, Legacy Systems: Transformation Strategies
Congratulations! Let’s say you just graduated with a computer science degree and now, bucking the economic trend, you’ve landed a job at a prestigious company with a large information technology department. You’re going to be replacing Bill, a programmer who won the lottery and was not seen or heard from again, save for a postcard from Puerto Vallarta two ...
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