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		AnimalMuppet on June 15, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Lessons learned from rewriting code Yes, you understand what it says. You don't know what it should say, though. The code can't tell you that. [Edit: "Better architecture, but bug-for-bug compatible" probably isn't the goal of the rewrite.]

jcoffland on June 17, 2019 [–]

> Better architecture, but bug-for-bug compatible" probably isn't the goal of the rewrite.

Why not? From there you proceed to fix the old bugs.

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