>>I'd still like to know why any rewrite would necessarily produce a better designed/coded system. Anyone can rewrite a system, even poor designers and programmers. It will end up just like THEY want it, then you might come in the door and see a system too fragile to work on.
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>It doesn't necessarily do so, but some code is just so bad that anything else will be better. I've looked at a lot of code over the years and way too much of it is terrible.
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>Tamar

Tamar;

I have to agree with you. The only good thing about poorly written code in my experience is that I made a lot of money as a consultant making things work for desperate companies. It is no joy to work on an application that is poorly structured.

Tom