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Originally posted by raynor:
Don't you wish that you could convince your boss that in most cases, it really is easier to write the whole thing from scratch than try to figure out what the other guy was thinking?
'Write all your programs as if the next guy to work on it is an axe-murderer who knows where you live.'
Actually, I have been lucky, and we have been allowed to rewrite most of our multi-million line app over the Last several years. Unfortunately, this was one of those cases where we all (myself included
) thought that it would be easy to migrate this code to our new system. Oh well, live and learn!