Andrew Tridgell once said "you never need an excuse to rewrite something". But I usually append that quote with "but then again, you're not Tridge" :) Kernigh

Andrew Tridgell once said "you never need an excuse to rewrite something". But I usually append that quote with "but then again, you're not Tridge" :) Kernighan and Plauger said "don't patch bad code: rewrite it". That is definitely true. And there's a lot of bad code.