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Old 09-28-2009, 05:57 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Spritze View Post
It probably IS a huge amount of work.

If the original assumptions made during the design phase of a program do not allow for the addition of unknown future data it is generally not programming time efficient to replace them unless the code is written in discrete self contained chunks that can be removed and rewritten as a whole. That is generally why programs need a complete rewrite every 5 years or so. Things change.
That's true, but if the data is in the same or a similar format to the Lahman data wouldn't be a lot less work to adapt what is already there?
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