Talk:Deprecation
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Mention features removed in early versions of Java (3.0?)
Strictly speaking, "deprecated" means "frowned upon" or "discouraged", and it is not a simple synonym for "obsolete". For example, you could say that "goto statements are generally deprecated in modern C++", even though this langauge feature is not being phased out and there are very legitimate cases where it is a good idea to use goto. By contrast, the word "obsolete" simply means that an old thing has been replaced by something newer. Most "obsolete" stuff is indeed deprecated, but there are counterexamples, e.g. if the newer API is broken for some reason. Sun popularized the word "deprecated" in the Java API's, but you will notice that Microsoft chose to use "ObsoleteAttribute" for the .NET Framework, and this is in fact a technically more accurate word for the way people generally use it.
Disambiguation statement may be helpful.non-coders understand it to mean self-Deprecate — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rcaroe (talk • contribs) 03:17, 9 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
You say: "deprecation is the gradual phasing-out".
The word "gradual" should be left out. In other words: the speed of making obsolete is not part of the meaning of the word.
For example in http://del.icio.us/help/api/ they say "We will version the API, but may deprecate early versions aggressively.".
http://www.worldwidewords.org/topicalwords/tw-dep1.htmcontains the following quote under deprecate: "A deprecated object ... is one which must be supported, but one which will most likely be removed from the next version ..."
I can't seem to understand the following sentence from the article:
It seems like maybe someone started writing a sentence that made sense, but stopped in the middle. — The Storm Surfer 16:06, 3 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
It might be sensible to add an example of how "all rights is reserved" is still useful because, as I read it, it was not useful at all, and I came to think that this sentence was mentioned the other way round. Wisapi (talk) 00:08, 23 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
"use of the term "all rights reserved" has been essentially deprecated, as it no longer serves any purpose and grants no additional right or protection not already available if the statement were never used. In this instance, deprecated is a better term to describe the condition than obsolete, because a term that is deprecated might have some use or value.
Why are the dates in articles never linked again ? --AndreaMimi (talk) 13:00, 22 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Rather confusing, and also applicable. (It's the decrease in value due 'technological outdating') (Edit: sorry, didn't notice depreciated) 88.159.74.89 (talk) 12:27, 20 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Depreciated can mean obsolete, as well as its main meaning of "fully used up," thus there are certain rare situations where both words can interchange with each other, especially where obsolesence is also discouraged. Technically, they are not synonyms, but their use in such contexts leads the reader to the same conclusion.71.106.209.108 (talk) 08:53, 10 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
The list lists reasons for deprecation. WMIC should be removed from that list.--Holzklöppel (talk) 13:55, 3 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]