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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
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Subject: Re: Obsolete functions and variables
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:10:36 -0400
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      I guess
    the dangers generally outweigh the advantages but there's not much point in
    marking them obsolete if they're never going to be removed.

I think that is incorrect.  It is useful to urge people to make their
code use more modern interfaces regardless of whether we ever delete
the old ones.