Rewrite or repair?

Question

I\'m sure you have all been there, you take on a project where there is a creaky old code base which is barely fit for purpose and you have to make the decision to either re

Answer 1

See Joel Spolsky's essay Things You Should Never Do. In summary, when you rewrite you lose all the lessons you learned to make your current code work the way it needs to work.

See also: Big Ball of Mud