Predecessor used in a sentence

Predecessor in a sentence as a noun

The new CEO opened letter #1 and the paper inside had the words blame it on your predecessor.

This is purely anecdotal, but my predecessor at my current job was a CS graduate and wrote code like in the OP.

The predecessor was wildly successful and created new problems.

> How can the linux kernel compile itself?Short answer: it can't. Each software system relies for its own existence on a predecessor, usually one of smaller scope.

During the discussion, the departing CEO stated he had placed 3 very important letters in his drawer just as his predecessor had done for him.

By way of background -- at the time that we created Wasabi's predecessor, Thistle, we had a large code base in VBScript that only ran on Windows, and almost no developers.

It would seem that implementing a new UX around it won't really help, since the new "fill up turn bar" would be just as unreliable and error-prone as its blue-arrow predecessor.

Because the people who made it originally are gone, replaced by a bunch of guys who are told "Make it work like the last one, but the market says it needs to be more action-y, so do that too." The people on the new team weren't there the first time around, and so they wind up making a faded copy of a game trying to imitate the predecessor.