From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c7cc2013cc83f8e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-02-21 22:21:37 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!peernews-us.colt.net!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed2.easynews.com!newsfeed1.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!newsfeed1.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: "Eric G. Miller" Subject: Re: ANN: BUSH 0.9.2 released (OT) References: <3E552EA9.1030407@cogeco.ca> Message-ID: User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 06:21:38 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.119.28.214 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net 1045894898 216.119.28.214 (Fri, 21 Feb 2003 22:21:38 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 22:21:38 PST Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:34412 Date: 2003-02-22T06:21:38+00:00 List-Id: 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... -- echo ">gra.fcw@2ztr< eryyvZ .T pveR" | rot13 | reverse