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> Start from scratch, don't connect anything legacy

The myth of the clean sweep. Personally, I've found such systems tend to be late, wrong and inevitably end up resembling what they replace, warts-and-all. This is because systems tend to mirror the organisational and political context they are in, and most programmers today are not significantly better than those who came before them. Quote me all the exceptions you like, this is my experience.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_law



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