I can't imagine how a codebase could be so horribly bad that it doesn't do even one thing right, and you have to throw it out wholesale. That is, assuming it wa

I can't imagine how a codebase could be so horribly bad that it doesn't do even one thing right, and you have to throw it out wholesale. That is, assuming it was good enough to ship at some point. I don't like to feel that I'm wasting my time doing rework, and vulnerable to getting in way too deep with no backup plan. I'd definitely want to rewrite in pieces without ever discarding the whole, even if eventually there might come a day when every single piece has been rewritten.