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_y4o5
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Lessons Learned from Software Rewrites
This isn't a rewrite in the traditional "big bang" sense of a rewrite but normal software evolution and maintenance.
Anyway sounds like their approach was quite reasonable, just a bad title for the blog entry.
amartinsn
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It's an incremental rewrite. Rewrite one feature, switch everyone to use it, then destroy the old implementation. Do the same for all other features.
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Anyway sounds like their approach was quite reasonable, just a bad title for the blog entry.