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Questions about the definition of software-engineering terms, and about the right terms to use to refer to commonly known concepts, practices or patterns related to software and systems development life cycle. Using the right terms correctly is a core practice of the scientific and engineering reasoning.

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Deprecated vs. Denigrated in JavaDoc?

After some more digging I was able to find a blog post called Deprecation in the JDK. It basically states that things marked Deprecated are considered harmful to be used, and that there are some thing …
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Deprecated vs. Denigrated in JavaDoc?

In the JavaDoc for X509Certificate getSubjectDN() it states: Denigrated, replaced by getSubjectX500Principal(). I am used to seeing Deprecated in the for methods that should not be used any longer, …
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