Here's Joel on Software article from year 2000 about code rewrites: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/arti

Here's Joel on Software article from year 2000 about code rewrites: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html (titled "Things You Should Never Do, Part I", mentions Netscape 6). Made me respect and fear the impulse to "rewrite".