Florin Iucha cried from the depths of the abyss...
>
>   "Before Borland's new spreadsheet for Windows shipped, Philippe
>   Kahn, the colorful founder of Borland, was quoted a lot in the
>   press bragging about how Quattro Pro would be much better than
>   Microsoft Excel, because it was written from scratch. All new
>   source code! As if source code rusted."

Sounds like a case of rewriteitis.