Subj : Re: Is well written code a rare species ?
To   : comp.programming
From : iny+news
Date : Tue Aug 16 2005 08:58 am

Scott Moore <samiamsansspam@Sun.COM> writes:

> 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.

Yes, you can rewrite it part by part. Rewriting it all at once would
take too much time.

The thing just is that working with such code is already continuous
rewriting and so there is nothing new for me. :) With that kind of
system you have to live with some bad parts to be able to rewrite the
parts that are even worse. 

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Ilpo Nyyssönen # biny # /* :-) */

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