[Dcphp-dev] Question & Comment: Cleaning Up a Codebase?

[Keith Casey]

On 1/17/07, Sandy Smith <ssmith at forumone.com> wrote:
> I'd be cautious about "always rewriting" as a rule (as I am about Spolsky's
> "never rewrite"). If a codebase is sufficiently awful and is functionally
> lacking in some way, then it's easy to junk it and start over. But if it's
> working, it's tough to sell a client on paying again for the application to
> be built.

Yeah, this one gets me a bit nervous too.  It's easy to say "we need
to rebuild X module" when it's obviously not working, but building one
to throw away...  how in the world do you get a customer - who's often
paying by the hour - allow you to rebuild the whole application?

kc

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