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Legacy code

Known as: Legacy Programmer, Legacy coding, Legacy programming 
Legacy code is source code that relates to a no-longer supported or manufactured operating system or other computer technology. The term was first… 
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Highly Cited
2012
Highly Cited
2012
While the C programming language provides good support for writing efficient, low-level code, it is not adequate for defining… 
2010
2010
To reduce development time and introduce technologies faster to the market, many companies have been turning more and more to… 
2008
2008
With the proliferation of multicore processors, there is an urgent need for tools and methodologies supporting parallelization of… 
2008
2008
Writing unit tests for legacy systems is a key maintenance task. When writing tests for object-oriented programs, objects need to… 
Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
This paper proposes a new hardware technique for using one core of a CMP to prefetch data for a thread running on another core… 
2002
2002
Abstract. This paper describes a prototype implementation of a software platform that enables the utilization and collaborative… 
2000
2000
We present Softspec, a technique for parallelizing sequential applications using only simple software mechanisms, requiring no… 
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
We argue that maintenance and reengineering tools need to have a thorough knowledge of the language that the code is written in…