Comments on: Re: Deprecation in the JDK http://www.antwerkz.com/re-deprecation-in-the-jdk/ Thu, 24 Jun 2010 11:18:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: John http://www.antwerkz.com/re-deprecation-in-the-jdk/comment-page-1/#comment-15673 John Fri, 07 Aug 2009 23:15:04 +0000 http://www.antwerkz.com/?p=3289#comment-15673 "Everyone hates the deprecation policies of the JDK team but it’s certainly an understandable policy." No everyone doesn't. Code written from JDK 1.0 still works today. Just like Cobol, just like Fortran. Unlike Visual Basic (which is a product, not really a language. If you get rid of things that programmers abuse, you'd have to get rid of more than just the deprecated methods. No matter what you do, there will still be stupid programmers. “Everyone hates the deprecation policies of the JDK team but it’s certainly an understandable policy.”

No everyone doesn’t. Code written from JDK 1.0 still works today. Just like Cobol, just like Fortran. Unlike Visual Basic (which is a product, not really a language.

If you get rid of things that programmers abuse, you’d have to get rid of more than just the deprecated methods. No matter what you do, there will still be stupid programmers.

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