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by eej71 2448 days ago
What prompted everyone to want to rewrite so much code?
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They were on a system where if bugs existed past a certain date of them being logged, their was financial penalties that had to be paid.

Also adding new features was incredibly slow, painful and dangerous. Even a minor change resulted in so much manual regression needing to be done. It was absurd.