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A comment on Lessons Learned from Software Rewrites.

Re:Lessons Learned from Software Rewrites by ensiferum on Monday September 05, 2016 @09:56AM (#12430323)
This isn't a rewrite in the traditional "big bang" sense of a rewrite but normal software evolution and maintenance.

Anyway sounds like their approach was quite reasonable, just a bad title for the blog entry.

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Re:Lessons Learned from Software Rewrites by amartinsn on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @02:05PM (#12437962)
It's an incremental rewrite. Rewrite one feature, switch everyone to use it, then destroy the old implementation. Do the same for all other features.
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