Re: ARGH!!! (was file open with LR)

["Bill Hopkins" <BHopkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Liked the "The Last Words of Sigmund Freud" touch. 

Also "then perhaps that too should be thrown out." and maybe some of the 
"no one knows the reason" people. :)
Take Care 
Bill Hopkins





Hans Boldt <boldt@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Bill Hopkins wrote:

> snip/
> This 
> may seem like an extreme position, but sometimes I think the best thing 
> a shop can do is just throw out all that legacy stuff, and re-code 
> everything from scratch. :-\
> end snip/
> 
> Just make sure they know the "Business logic" first. I see a lot of 
companies that don't know what they have, do not 
> know their own processes or missed things done a certain way for a 
reason 
> (that no one knows why) so the coders rely on what was there. Result: 
not 
> new from scratch with good design but just new crap.
> 

Understanding the business rules is of course necessary. But then again, 
if no one knows the reason for some particular business process, then 
perhaps that too should be thrown out. :-\

(see http://www.brave.com/bo/lyrics/always.htm)

Cheers! Hans


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