> Why do you say that? The idea one could get it right writing from scratch is one of those seductive thoughts, but in my experience it never works out that way.
Of course the alternate route – rewriting - is just a hypothetical so we can only suppose how it would've turned out.
That said, rewriting from scratch would've been pretty straightforward, since the design is pretty much set.
The real value of the existing code resides in the unit tests that Steve Sanderson, Ryan Niemeyer, and Michael Best created – since they illuminated a lot of weird and deceptive edge cases that would've likely been missed if we had rewritten from scratch.
So I suspect you are right, that it's just a seductive thought.
Of course the alternate route – rewriting - is just a hypothetical so we can only suppose how it would've turned out.
That said, rewriting from scratch would've been pretty straightforward, since the design is pretty much set.
The real value of the existing code resides in the unit tests that Steve Sanderson, Ryan Niemeyer, and Michael Best created – since they illuminated a lot of weird and deceptive edge cases that would've likely been missed if we had rewritten from scratch.
So I suspect you are right, that it's just a seductive thought.