I know you're being sarcastic, but even in the ANSI CL spec the word "deprecated" appears in some places. It's just that since nothing followed to it, the depre

I know you're being sarcastic, but even in the ANSI CL spec the word "deprecated" appears in some places. It's just that since nothing followed to it, the deprecation had no practical effect: the fixedness of the CL spec is just an accidental result of history. As an aging developer I also detest environments that break things every other day, but I have realized that on the other hand system that never move have indeed a tendency to wither, usually in comfortable niches, while the flow of things moves elsewhere.