Joel says don't rewrite, like the Netscape guys did http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog00000000

Joel says don't rewrite, like the Netscape guys did http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html Derek Sivers rewrote 90,000 lines of code in 12,000 lines... after 2 years on a failed rewrite. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=58429 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=58429 Maybe the lesson is that before you can renew your code, you yourself must be renewed? Or: You cannot solve a problem at the same level you created it.