Off topic aside about the confusing words "Deprecation" and "Depreciation"

Posted Jan 10, 2015 13:01 UTC (Sat) by tialaramex (subscriber, #21167)
In reply to: Haunted by ancient history by amonnet
Parent article: Haunted by ancient history

Depreciation is when things are worth less over time, for example a normal family car will depreciate - you can't buy a mid-range Ford Mondeo, drive it for a couple of years and sell it for the same or more money. Much as we joke about "code rot" APIs do not depreciate.

Deprecation is when things are no longer approved, for example the gets() C library function is deprecated - there are very few cases where it could be possible to use it safely so it's better no-one uses it at all and modern compilers may warn if it is used.

Off topic aside about the confusing words "Deprecation" and "Depreciation"

Posted Jan 10, 2015 14:02 UTC (Sat) by amonnet (guest, #54852) [Link] (1 responses)

API may not depreciate ;-)
However, maintenance costs increase over time.

API may not rot. Implementation are.

Go ask the maintainers...

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Off topic aside about the confusing words "Deprecation" and "Depreciation"

Posted Jan 14, 2015 17:15 UTC (Wed) by k8to (guest, #15413) [Link]

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