From: arne@vajhoej.dk   
      
   On 7/12/2025 1:26 PM, bill wrote:   
   > On 7/12/2025 11:13 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:   
   >> So again again if you rewrite an application, then you want   
   >> to change that logic instead of doing the 1:1 conversion.   
   >   
   > And this, of course, is where we disagree.  You see rewrites as   
   > normal and the best way to go.  I see them as usually a waste of   
   > time being called on for the wrong reasons.  Because your peers   
   > at a conference laugh at your legacy system is no reason to rewrite   
   > it.  (And, yes, I have seen senior management want to make major   
   > and often ridiculous changes based on something their peers said   
   > over lunch at a conference!!)   
      
   There is a whole discipline dedicated to determining   
   if, when and how to modernize IT systems.   
      
   But mistakes are made.   
      
   Some systems are attempted to be modernized even though they should not.   
      
   Some systems are kept even though they should have been modernized.   
      
   The second is probably more common than the first.   
      
   WuMo:   
      
   https://wumo.com/img/wumo/2020/07/wumo5efeff933b2cb2.74594194.jpg   
      
   Arne   
      
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