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It's a mistake to think that just because something is written in 2019, it automatically benefits from the extra 40 years of collective experience. The collecti
by gambler 8y ago
It's a mistake to think that just because something is written in 2019, it automatically benefits from the extra 40 years of collective experience. The collective has Korsakoff syndrome and aversion to history.
To be fair, there are two general kinds of legacy systems. Ones that work so well it makes no economic sense to replace them and ones that are such a giant, horrible clusterfuck that they warped the entire organization around their own idiosyncrasies. In the second case, replacing the system requires replacing most business processes as well, so it's very hard.