> A good rewrite is just a good refactoring but with a higher chance of success >Are you saying it's not a restart from scratch? In that case I don't call that

> A good rewrite is just a good refactoring but with a higher chance of success >Are you saying it's not a restart from scratch? In that case I don't call that a rewrite. Maybe a "rewrite of this or that module" which is more likely to succeed. Not, the rewrites have ben from scratch, including from LANG-A to LANG-B. What i mean is that the properties of a successfully refactoring/rewrite are similar. Only that with a rewrite you can go DEPPER and WIDER in what you change/improve. For example, when I rewrite certain program that uses Access/Excel just using PostgreSQL was a massive plus, not just on speed and reliability. A refactoring probably will only go for internal cleaning but with the rewrite I slash a lot of moving parts.