> Old code is better - it's got bug fixes. It's also got prototypes that made it into production, ball of mud designs that encourage usage bugs, and C++ thrown

> Old code is better - it's got bug fixes. It's also got prototypes that made it into production, ball of mud designs that encourage usage bugs, and C++ thrown together by that short lived intern who took a few Java classes, wrote everything assuming there was a garbage collector around, and took great care to avoid class trees with less than 3 layers of inheritance lest he be shamed for lack of 1337ness... then topped it off with a few __try/__catch blocks to deal with that one rare crash that nobody could find a repro case for. Re-implementing bug fixes is a toll... sometimes a very worthwhile one, though.