> There is one other situation where a full rewrite is good: if v1 is a throwaway prototype. However that would never have been put into production for any sign

> There is one other situation where a full rewrite is good: if v1 is a throwaway prototype. However that would never have been put into production for any significant number of users. Tell that to my manager. Since I joined this company a little over two years ago, all of our tools have been put into protoduction, despite my warnings and protests.