In article <3d76d177@news.povray.org>,
 "Nathan Kopp" <pov### [at] nkoppmailshellcom> wrote:

> >   Could you explain what does that mean? (I don't know, and I'm curious.)
> 
> I've heard the term "legacy code" used to refer to old code that formerly
> had meaning, but now serves no purpose except to eat CPU cycles.

I have also heard it used to mean an existing codebase...for example, 
when moving from Windows to Linux, code that depends on Windows would be 
legacy code.

This, I'd just call "code rot".

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