From: bill.gunshannon@gmail.com   
      
   On 7/12/2025 1:42 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   It's funny to see someone say that here. The whole IT world has been   
   saying that about VMS for a very long time.  I would have thought here   
   was the last bastion of "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."   
      
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   > The second is probably more common than the first.   
      
   "Being common" .NE. "right" .OR. "even necessarily a good idea".   
      
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   > WuMo:   
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   bill   
      
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