> The engineer anxiety about them is myopic and ignorant of business realities. Far from. The worry is not "this code is old." Plenty of old code (especially b

> The engineer anxiety about them is myopic and ignorant of business realities. Far from. The worry is not "this code is old." Plenty of old code (especially boring old code) is cranking along just fine. The worry is that if an old, abstruse system stops working or has a critical security bug, there's a real risk that nobody will be able to put the fire out.