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Rewriting is Rarely a Solution (Score:1)

by chromatic (983)

For what it's worth, I recommend refactoring.
Throwing away something that mostly works is a good way to get to write all of the easy stuff and all of the fixed bugs all over again, while making new mistakes.
Think of it like revising an article or a book chapter. Unless Pudge comes down on you super hard, you're better off rephrasing things, moving paragraphs around, and adding more jokey footnotes than scrapping everything and starting over.
(Of course, if Pudge does say "That's completely wrong. You
- Re:Rewriting is Rarely a Solution (Score:1)
  
  by chaoticset (2105) on 2001.11.28 12:02 (#2014) Homepage Journal
  
  I was rooting through the code earlier today in my discrete math class and I came to a similar conclusion: "Most of this works. I just need to fix some of the way I'm building my data structures and then add new stuff." This clinches it for me.
  It always feels better when I decide what I'm doing so I can get to the doing of it. :)
  
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