Am I Using a Legacy Programming Language?
Things move fast in the software development world. Technologies come and go faster than in most other industries. Programming languages tend to stay a little longer, but at a certain point in time, you might find yourself with a legacy programming language. How can you recognize this, and how should you react? What Is a Programming Language? Software is developed by writing code in a language that humans can understand. This code is then translated into instructions that the computer can understand. Like "normal" languages (e.g. English or French), a programming language evolves and has a community…