Subj : Re: Is well written code a rare species ?
To   : comp.programming
From : Scott Moore
Date : Mon Aug 15 2005 12:03 pm

Ilpo Nyyss=F6nen wrote:

>>That's the wrong place to start.  First you need to write a fresh
>>functional specification for the program that includes all of the
>>features you want it to have, and how it should operate.  Then
>>you can work on a new design of the program.  Then, having
>>gone to all that effort, do a complete rewrite of the code.
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> How do you do that with a big program with something like a million
> lines of code containing quite big amount of features?

By breaking it down in to smaller, more manageable pieces.

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