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Step 1: Build a proverbial "ball of mud", adding things left and right until all the shifting requirements are met.
Step 2: Write a minimal description of all the logic from scratch, by surveying the existing code, and then, essentially, write an interpreter for it.
If I got to step 2, and did a good job, future projects would become much easier.
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Step 1: Build a proverbial "ball of mud", adding things left and right until all the shifting requirements are met.
Step 2: Write a minimal description of all the logic from scratch, by surveying the existing code, and then, essentially, write an interpreter for it.
If I got to step 2, and did a good job, future projects would become much easier.