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title: Codurance Talks - Episode 8 - Legacy Code | Codurance
description: In this episode of Codurance Talks, our craftspeople discuss legacy code, what makes it hard to maintain, and strategies for improvement.
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# [Codurance Talks - Episode 8 - Legacy Code | Codurance](https://www.codurance.com/publications/podcasts/2019-01-21-legacy-code)

 Written by [Jorge Gueorguiev Garcia](https://www.codurance.com/publications/author/jorge-gueorguiev-garcia) | 21 Jan 2019

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Let’s talk about legacy code!

In this episode of Codurance Talks, our craftspeople discuss all of the different facets of legacy code:

- What is legacy code
- What makes legacy code challenging to maintain
- How quickly the knowledge of legacy code can rot away from both a technical and business perspective
- Strategies for dealing with legacy code

An interesting point about legacy code is that it doesn’t have a temporal link to time. Someone could create code today that another user is afraid to touch because of the unknown consequences of doing so.

Our craftspeople, [Sam Davies](https://www.codurance.com/publications/author/sam-davies/) and [Chris Bimson](https://github.com/christopher-bimson) return, with the new addition of [Andre Torres](https://github.com/andre2w).

**Link:**  
[Working Effectively with Legacy Code](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44919.Working_Effectively_with_Legacy_Code) by Michael C. Feathers.

 Photo: [Prairie Dog](https://pixabay.com/en/prairie-dog-singing-musical-rodent-1470659/) by DigiPD is licensed under [CC0](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en)  
Music: ["Sweeter Vermouth" by Kevin MacLeod](https://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/music.html) is licensed under [CC-BY 3.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)

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