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Re:Ask HN: I just inherited 700K+ lines of bad PHP. Advice? by thaumaturgy on Saturday September 22, 2012 @12:38PM (#4558248)
There is absolutely no way to rewrite a million lines of business logic without ending up with an even bigger mess. See also: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html
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Re:Ask HN: I just inherited 700K+ lines of bad PHP. Advice? by jsmartonly on Saturday September 22, 2012 @12:56PM (#4558314)
I read that article before and totally agree with the point.

But that situation is different from the one we discuss here.

I do not know more information about ohmygord's project, but I basically want to point out to consider non-technical side of it. For example, people in the same team may not technical, and/or think maintaining existing solution is simple. I was in similar situation before, I was lucky to happen to select right strategy to deal with the situation.

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