363: Jonathan Boccara on Understanding Legacy Code
Jonathan Boccara, author of The Legacy Code Programmer’s Toolbox discusses understanding and working with legacy code. Working with legacy code is a key skill of professional software development that is often neglected. Host Adam Gordon Bell spoke with Boccara about reading legacy code, developing the right attitude for approaching legacy code and several techniques for improving your legacy code skill set.
Related Links
- Episode 295: Michael Feathers on Legacy Code
- Episode 242: Dave Thomas on Legacy Systems
- Book “The Legacy Code Programmers toolbox”
- Fluent C++: A Blog About Expressive Code
- Counting words in your code
- Boost.org
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Wow!! what an impressive interview. Both Adam Gordon Bell and Jonathan Boccara are very good at communicating and I learnt a lot from this interview. Thank you!