Programming as Theory Building by Peter Naur
Future of Coding
Rewrites Are Always Bad, Right?
An hour wants to say, no, they might not be that there's actually criteria for when a rewrite is bad. A rewrite is bad if there's anybody who still has the theory. If you can't make those modifications, then consider a rewrite. But he also gives us some like, I guess, management advice where he says, like, similar problems to revival can happen if there's just this revolving door of different programmers coming in and out.
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