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Questions about the Software Development Life Cycle (i.e. activities of the software development process, not necessarily related to a specific methodology).

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"All software has an expiration date by which time it must be rewritten from scratch."

Consider just how many things can change over a short timescale: New OSs appear. Existing OSs get rebuilt. 3rd party packages appear, develop, drop off support or go obsolete. New hardware appears, in …
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