Motivations
A piece of software is typically rewritten when one or more of the following apply:
- its source code is not available or is only available under an incompatible license
- its code cannot be adapted to a new target platform
- its existing code has become too difficult to handle and extend
- the task of debugging it seems too complicated
- the programmer finds it difficult to understand its source code
- developer learned new techniques or wishes to do a big feature overhaul that requires much change
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