#legacy
2 posts on this topic.
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Software doesn’t age by being used
Running a program doesn’t wear it out. It ages by being left alone — and whoever lets that go far enough ends up buying not maintenance, but the application all over again.
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Rewriting a system so that nobody notices
When an old system is rewritten in a new technology, the client has just one question: will it work exactly the same? There’s a way to be sure — and its most important rule is that the old bugs must not be fixed.