Re: Code "anciency" (does this word even exist in English?)
Reply #1 –
I think the word you are looking for is antiquated, certainly the architecture.
The buzz word for what we have been doing is Refactoring ... "is a disciplined technique for restructuring an existing body of code, altering its internal structure without changing its external behavior.
Its heart is a series of small behavior preserving transformations. Each transformation (called a “refactoring”) does little, but a sequence of transformations can produce a significant restructuring. Since each refactoring is small, it’s less likely to go wrong. The system is kept fully working after each small refactoring, reducing the chances that a system can get seriously broken during the restructuring."
I'm in no way putting down the old code, if it was not good stuff we would not be taking the time to bring it forward, but its a process to unravel the tangle.