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Re:Avoid rewriting a legacy system from scratch by stranglin... by Dontrememberit on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @12:41AM (#22353758)
Can you tell what area is this? Is it a backend service or something like software that runs on consumer's PCs?
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Re:Avoid rewriting a legacy system from scratch by stranglin... by geekpowa on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @01:18AM (#22353898)
Rich Client / Consumer PC. SQL backend (originally was proprietary DB), fairly tight coupling between UX and model, old school rich client event loop. An unhealthy amount of global state ( what the original programming language encouraged )
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