Working Effectively with Legacy Code

Foreword

“...then it began...”

In his introduction to this book, Michael Feathers uses that phrase to describe the start of his passion for software.

“...then it began...”

Do you know that feeling? Can you point to a single moment in your life and say: “...then it began...”? Was there a single event that changed the course of your life and eventually led you to pick up this book and start reading this foreword?

I was in sixth grade when it happened to me. I was interested in science and space and all things technical. My mother found a plastic computer in a catalog and ordered it for me. It was called Digi-Comp I. Forty years later that little plastic computer holds a place of honor on my bookshelf. It was the catalyst that sparked my enduring ...