08-25-2014, 05:40 PM
DeusxMac wrote:
[quote=eustacetilley]
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I'm trying to educate our coders to use the word "superseded"; as in "Version 3.1.1 has been superseded by Version 3.2.2."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take the place of (a person or thing previously in authority or use); supplant: the older models have now been superseded.
Thank you.
Wordfriendly doubleplus excellent.
Supersede is not only a worthy word in and of itself, but it has a very long and worthy wordy history. Tear the roots apart, and it means "go beyond" "what you are sitting on". (Or words to that effect.)
I do hope that you start a trend, (Google has already catalogued this.), and "Deprecate" in Software terms goes the way of "23 Skidoo". (Nobody actually really knew what that meant either, at the time. It was an address for either a Speakeasy, or a Bordello, on 23rd Street, in Manhattan. The locations referred to were frequently the same. P. G. Wodehouse popularized the term, keeping the seamier elements to be guessed at, at leisure, over a Gin and Tonic.)
Eustace