Subj : Re: Is well written code a rare species ? To : comp.programming From : Alan Balmer Date : Mon Aug 15 2005 02:30 pm On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 11:03:13 -0700, Scott Moore wrote: >Ilpo Nyyssönen 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. >> >> >> 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. In other words, rewrite it. I don't think that answers the question. -- Al Balmer Balmer Consulting removebalmerconsultingthis@att.net .