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  • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    5 months ago

    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.

    • Contend6248@feddit.deEnglish
      21·
      5 months ago

      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.

      • Llewellyn@lemm.eeEnglish
        5·
        5 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.

        • Contend6248@feddit.deEnglish
          1·
          5 months ago

          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

          • Llewellyn@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            5 months ago

            No. What I mean is rewriting it part by part, not from scratch, but following the old algorithms as possible.