Legacy code, at some point in the past, was somebody's new and beautiful code (or so they thought -- little did they know it was hideous). If the tools that exi

Legacy code, at some point in the past, was somebody's new and beautiful code (or so they thought -- little did they know it was hideous). If the tools that existed then didn't allow them to do the hideous things they did, you wouldn't be calling their code "legacy" today.