Legacy in a sentence as a noun

The bad news is, you still have the legacy decoder sitting there taking up space.

You need to be aware of their existing legacy infrastructures and have a story of how you "play nice".

Delphi is the easiest platform by far to have legacy code on, because the maintenance cost is very low.

They can more easily dump legacy cruft, embrace genuinely novel and interesting ways of doing things, etc.

There's 20 years of accumulated legacy and design mistakes that the driver vendors need to care about.

Once upon a time I was working with a very challenging legacy code and I was building similar constructions in my mind.

As another commenter said, "Osama bin Laden's legacy lives on with every traveler being herded through body scanners, with every illegal search in our 120-mile-radius Constitution-free zones, and with every warrantless wiretap.

Quite often though industry biases will engage and they'll be put on duty keeping some legacy system alive because their deep knowledge of the system lets the company put 1 guy maintaining half a million lines of code in perpetuity vs. 10 young guys maintaining the same, who all wanting to leave after a few years to build more skills.

Legacy definitions

noun

(law) a gift of personal property by will

See also: bequest