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		thrownaway954 on Jan 21, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why do we fall into the rewrite trap? it's called investing in your product. if a rewrite will cost x amount in dollars and man hours upfront, BUT will save much more over the lifetime of the product in support and pain for both you and your customer, then it is ALWAYS worth it.

pjmlp on Jan 21, 2020 [–]

If that is proven for the use case in question, by all means.

If not, then there are better places where to spend money.

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