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Re:The Birth of Legacy Software – How Change Aversion Feeds ... by goto11 on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @07:10AM (#21637571)
It is not "sunk cost fallacy" to not wanting to fix the same bugs twice!
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Re:The Birth of Legacy Software – How Change Aversion Feeds ... by rusticpenn on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @01:52AM (#21645849)
I think the word "bug" is not correct in this context. If a rewrite of the software contains the exact same bug, then it means that the requirements were not well defined.
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