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A comment on How To Survive a Ground-Up Rewrite.

Re:How To Survive a Ground-Up Rewrite by derefr on Monday April 08, 2013 @08:11PM (#5515611)
> If you really are committed to just rewriting the entire thing from scratch, I don't know what to tell you.

What about when what you're rewriting is basically an intensely-overgrown prototype that was never meant to run in production in the first place?

You're supposed to completely rewrite those, aren't you?

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Re:How To Survive a Ground-Up Rewrite by stormbrew on Monday April 08, 2013 @08:14PM (#5515615)
It ceased to be a prototype when it went into production. No dissembling can change that fact at that point, all the caveats of how and what you can rewrite take effect whether you like it or not.
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