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Originally Posted by JosephWebber
PS I know what deprecate means, but I do not understand what you mean by it. Can you explain?
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Deprecated means as much as that the page is obsolete, no longer updated, and might be removed without warning in the future.
http://foldoc.org/deprecated
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Originally Posted by Jargon File
Said of a program or feature that is considered obsolescent and in the process of being phased out, usually in favour of a specified replacement. Deprecated features can, unfortunately, linger on for many years. This term appears with distressing frequency in standards documents when the committees writing the documents realise that large amounts of extant (and presumably happily working) code depend on the feature(s) that have passed out of favour.
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