The codebase in question may be well beyond the line where any sane person would touch it, seriously. Sure. If you ever find this [1] a rewrite does look like

The codebase in question may be well beyond the line where any sane person would touch it, seriously. Sure. If you ever find this [1] a rewrite does look like the only sane decision. [1] https://ayende.com/blog/4612/it-really-happened-legacy-programmers-tales https://ayende.com/blog/4612/it-really-happened-legacy-progr...