Also interesting is that once you start re-writing and bump into hard issues, you decide to take a peek at how others have solved them, you eventually find your

Also interesting is that once you start re-writing and bump into hard issues, you decide to take a peek at how others have solved them, you eventually find yourself understanding the platform you're trying to re-write and realize that maybe that platform is not as bad as you thought it were. "Those who don't understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly."