> Rewrites are the devil though, at least that's what Joel Spolsky taught me. From scratch rewrites of anything large are, absolutely. But it's entirely possib

> Rewrites are the devil though, at least that's what Joel Spolsky taught me. From scratch rewrites of anything large are, absolutely. But it's entirely possible to rewrite code component-by-component in many cases, and that's what most of the successful moves have done.