Also Joel wrote another article where he says that rewriting the code from scratch (removing technical debt or switching to a new popular framework) is generall

Also Joel wrote another article where he says that rewriting the code from scratch (removing technical debt or switching to a new popular framework) is generally a bad idea: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html Improving and perfecting the code is a task that can take infinite amount of time.