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bycascadingstylesheet ( 140919 ) writes:
"Redesigns" often make things worse. Designers are given free reign, users come in a distant last.
Incremental improvements are more likely to make things better.
byMr. Barky ( 152560 ) writes:
Joel on software, long ago, wrote an article about why you should never do a rewrite. You should always evolve the existing. While obviously the rule shouldn't be absolute (there are times when a rewrite needs to be done), it ought to be very rare. Old software is very often good software. Most major bugs have been fixed, a lot of minor ones too. What doesn't work can usually be solved by evolving the software (sometimes including major surgery to underlying components). Use cases are lost to the new design
byfelixrising ( 1135205 ) writes:
Nice write up, sums up a lot of the issues with a major rewrite of a decades old system.
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