RE: ANN: BUSH 0.9.2 released

RE: ANN: BUSH 0.9.2 released

[Lionel.DRAGHI]

My French-English Harraps Dictionary gives a "to disapprove" meaning to
deprecate, and a "to lower the value" to depreciate. 
The former seems to suggest more a forbidding than just an obsolescence.

Perhaps should you first apply a Depreciate pragma, and then after some
releases the other one :-)

Lionel Draghi

Re: ANN: BUSH 0.9.2 released (OT)

[Warren W. Gay VE3WWG]

Lionel.DRAGHI@fr.thalesgroup.com wrote:
> My French-English Harraps Dictionary gives a "to disapprove" meaning to
> deprecate, and a "to lower the value" to depreciate. 
> The former seems to suggest more a forbidding than just an obsolescence.
> 
> Perhaps should you first apply a Depreciate pragma, and then after some
> releases the other one :-)
> 
> Lionel Draghi

All of this reminds me of the internal conflict we had within our
software product office at one time, because people didn't like my
spelling of "cancelled". Then I changed it to "canceled", and I then
hear from an entirely different group!

There was no winning on this one.. :(

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Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg

Re: ANN: BUSH 0.9.2 released (OT)

[Eric G. Miller]

In article <3E552EA9.1030407@cogeco.ca>, Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote:
> Lionel.DRAGHI@fr.thalesgroup.com wrote:
>> My French-English Harraps Dictionary gives a "to disapprove" meaning to
>> deprecate, and a "to lower the value" to depreciate. 
>> The former seems to suggest more a forbidding than just an obsolescence.
>> 
>> Perhaps should you first apply a Depreciate pragma, and then after some
>> releases the other one :-)
>> 
>> Lionel Draghi
> 
> All of this reminds me of the internal conflict we had within our
> software product office at one time, because people didn't like my
> spelling of "cancelled". Then I changed it to "canceled", and I then
> hear from an entirely different group!

This is like modelling (or modeling).  I guess the doubling of the "l"
is considered somewhat archaic, but both are correct.  Similarly, both
"deprecate" and "depreciate" are "correct", but I brought it up because
"deprecate" appeared to be the preferred way to mark an API obsolete in
the software world as witnessed by RFCs and a number of other sources
(GCC has an __attribute__((deprecated)) for C function interfaces, for
instance).  In all these cases, it's more a matter of consistency than
correctness...

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