Origin and History of 'deprecate'

pash · 2025-08-28T04:19:58.000Z

Discussion: Origin and history of 'deprecate'

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ggm

4 months ago

Heavily used in Operating systems and related contexts, for features which in future will be unavailable, but for now continuance on sufferance is tolerated.

E.G. on linux ifconfig -> ip command, some crossover, then ifconfig having been deprecated for some years, is removed.

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