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Things You Should Never Do, Part I (2000)
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It's mostly stopping the world to re-write everything from scratch that is a mistake.
Good practice is to refactor the codebase until it's modular (if it's not already sufficiently modular), and then proceed to replace modules gradually until you reach your desired state of re-writtenness.
This has the benefits of actually getting you up to speed with maintenance over time without having to halt new feature development, giving you the best of both worlds.