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Re:Software Engineering principles to make teams better by Scarbutt on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @01:52PM (#27691508)
You make it sound as they are talking about full rewrites but it's actually about rewriting stuff here and there.

You are also assuming one just rewrites stuff blindly and randomly without any prior new insight.

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Re:Software Engineering principles to make teams better by BurningFrog on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @02:14PM (#27691775)
I took that to mean refactoring the code, not throwing it away and start over.
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