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minus-square@AnUnusualReliclinkEnglish23•edit-28 months agoRewriting a legacy system that’s been patched and amended for 30 years… Good luck with that. It seems simple on paper but it’s anything but.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•8 months agoJust make it from scratch? For sure there is so much useless shit in there, that’s why nobody gets their head around it anymore.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•edit-28 months ago Just make it from scratch? And miss some tricky edge cases, which were covered in old code? It’s a railroad. Those edge cases could be disastrous.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•8 months agoOk, keep it for the next 100 years and get custom build hardware which can run that stuff, that’s cheap and safe. Never touch anything
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•8 months agoNo. What I mean is rewriting it part by part, not from scratch, but following the old algorithms as possible.
Rewriting a legacy system that’s been patched and amended for 30 years… Good luck with that. It seems simple on paper but it’s anything but.
Just make it from scratch?
For sure there is so much useless shit in there, that’s why nobody gets their head around it anymore.
And miss some tricky edge cases, which were covered in old code?
It’s a railroad. Those edge cases could be disastrous.
Ok, keep it for the next 100 years and get custom build hardware which can run that stuff, that’s cheap and safe.
Never touch anything
No. What I mean is rewriting it part by part, not from scratch, but following the old algorithms as possible.