We should strive for a decent definition of legacy.
What's not a fad is now legacy.
I work on Ruby-on-Rails r3 and the programmers already consider it legacy, since r4 has been out a while.
Legacy should mean something similar to all: maybe not easily runnable on today's hardware (needs special emulators,...), not having security updates,... e.g. Cobol or...
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We should strive for a decent definition of legacy.
...), not having security updates, ... e.g. Cobol or ...
What's not a fad is now legacy. I work on Ruby-on-Rails r3 and the programmers already consider it legacy, since r4 has been out a while. Legacy should mean something similar to all: maybe not easily runnable on today's hardware (needs special emulators,