In a dysfunctional company where "the code is the documentation"? Yeah. If there are knowledgeable people to lead the process, and the transition is done appro

In a dysfunctional company where "the code is the documentation"? Yeah. If there are knowledgeable people to lead the process, and the transition is done appropriately: it is 100% possible and I have done multiple times in my career. The burden on rewriting shouldn't lie in developers alone. And before someone quotes Spolsky: not every software is Netscape Navigator.