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I didn't choose the framing, they did. Here are the first sentences of the first two paragraphs: > Conventional wisdom holds that you should never rewrite you
by pwinnski 7y ago
I didn't choose the framing, they did.
Here are the first sentences of the first two paragraphs:
> Conventional wisdom holds that you should never rewrite your code from scratch, and that’s good advice.
> Still, software codebases have life spans.
- bdcravens 7y agoYes, those sentences set up the rest of the article, establishing the thesis: Those two sentences are true, and not necessarily at odds with one another. The author spends the rest of the article explaining this, and how they accomplished it.