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Re:Avoid rewriting a legacy system from scratch by stranglin... by cjfd on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @03:36AM (#22354430)
At some point it starts to sound a bit like 'whatever you do, don't touch a keyboard'. Rewriting everything from scratch? Very risky, please don't. Strangling you old application? Some comments here tell us that we should not. Perhaps they are right. Refactor your current application? 90% of the time it is an error.
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Re:Avoid rewriting a legacy system from scratch by stranglin... by SirSavary on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @10:31AM (#22356728)
Had the pleasure of working at a company like this. Don't rewrite, don't you do refactor, and a proxy? How do you even spell that?

The end result was me losing my "mojo" after a year of producing effectively nothing. I'm back together now but my god it's a terrifying feeling when you've been programming for over ten years and one day you can't make the code flow out of your hands anymore.

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