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Something I was taught long ago about software development was that when you approached 80% completion on a project, it was faster to throw out everything you had done and start over. Why? Because in your ignorance you had done things that you later proved to be very bad design choices. It is faster to re-design the whole thing from scratch, and then borrow as appropriate from the old project, than to try to fix the old project. I would be very surprised if code from these other projects didn't end up in this new one. Why should a developer strap himself to a 10 year old framework that will break when it is expanded, when he could make a new one that will work well, and then borrow a lot of code out of the other projects?

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