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by perl4ever 1898 days ago
I have a two step process for building a software system; I haven't got to the second step in practice, but some day...

Step 1: Build a proverbial "ball of mud", adding things left and right until all the shifting requirements are met.

Step 2: Write a minimal description of all the logic from scratch, by surveying the existing code, and then, essentially, write an interpreter for it.

If I got to step 2, and did a good job, future projects would become much easier.