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When Rewriting an App Actually Makes Sense

Posted by timothy on from the old-app-was-starting-to-fester dept.

vlangber writes "Joel Spolsky wrote a famous blog post back in 2000 called 'Things You Should Never Do, Part I,' where he wrote the following: '[T]he single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make: They decided to rewrite the code from scratch.' Here is a story about a software company that decided to rewrite their application from scratch, and their experiences from that process."

3 of 289 comments (clear)

  1. Re:And why? by tomhudson · · Score: 0, Troll

    Here' let me help you :-)

    • Mistake # 1: "CMS was developed using Active Server Pages, and consisted of around 80,000 lines of VBScript code"
    • Mistake # 2: "new CMS based on Microsoft .Net 2.0"

      Einstein said something about making the same mistake and expecting different results ...

  2. Re:Here's my short list by Foofoobar · · Score: 0, Troll

    Sounds like you are robbing Paul to pay Peter.

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  3. Re:Don't pay so much attention to Joel Spolsky. by kriston · · Score: 0, Troll

    When your boss quotes Joel Spolsky, it's probably time to move on.

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