RIP , photojournalist James Foley

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eustacetilley wrote:
I was referring to the nauseating tendency of Code Monkeys to use the word "deprecate" to merely indicate old or no longer supported software.
To say "Version 3.1.1 has been deprecated, update to Version 3.2.2." is just thoroughly wrong. To say "Version 3.1.1 has been depreciated and will no longer be supported" is better, but not by much.
To say "Version 3.1.1 was just bloody awful. Don't use it." conveys the right use of "Deprecate", without actually using the word.

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I'm trying to educate our coders to use the word "superseded"; as in "Version 3.1.1 has been superseded by Version 3.2.2." A vastly more appropriate word for their intended meaning.

supersede
verb [ with obj. ]
take the place of (a person or thing previously in authority or use); supplant: the older models have now been superseded.