This is definitely a 5+star book: All of its recommendations are good.
The only flaw in this book is: It doesn't go far enough. I've now been working for 1+yr with a 20+yr old C++ code base (that's still responsible for over $1B revenue a year, runs on over 1500 servers, handles well over 100000 requests/min in total). I read this book in the first couple of weeks and thought "yeah, ok, but things can't possibly be that bad".
Well, now I know better. They're worse.
This book can help you _a lot_ with the technical aspects of working with legacy code - but some things (esp. long-standing company processes) just can't be fixed by mortal man. So you need a good attitude (including a good sense of humor) as well. Working with good colleagues also helps. But definitely read this book and use its lessons in practice.
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Book is absolutely great, except it sugar coats things: Working with legacy code can be worse than you can possibly believe
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Mongol
A decent book for 2004 but hopelessly outdated in 2019
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Skiamakhos
Everyone who works as a maintenance developer should read this.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 14, 2014Verified Purchase
Frank R.
A good summary of techniques you might have used
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ALASTAIR TAYLOR
Code sample formatting on Kindle edition
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Every engineer should have a copy
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