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I thought Yegge was rather specific about what he thought. He specifically mentioned a bunch of things (Java, emacs, AWS, Android, browsers) that take the approach to deprecation that he wished to see.

I would sum up his ideas as: "If you offer a service I pay for, and deploy code on, you should not break my code while you still offer the product."

I also don't think he'd have bothered to mention one or two minor things. His examples were rampant and incredibly bad, like breaking their own offerings.