When I was at IBM I took over a program product - IC/1 - and it was written for a very old version of APL and had to be backward compatible with oldest versions of VM/GDDM/TSO/...
I rewrote it - IC/E - to use onle newest version of APL2/GDDM/VM/TSO/... and over 90% of the code disappeared And not only did the code get smaller it did not take very long to do and it was very easy to add a bunch of new added functionality that came with years of added functionality in the surroundings It took me much longer and required much more effort to convince the bean counters at IBM - much more than 90% - to allow the changes to go out the door 2006/6/25, Oleg Kobchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Change is a good thing, because it allows for new better things
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