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It is marketing speak because marketing people use these kinds of phrases to stop readers thinking about the merits of different choices they have, and instead focus their minds on the idea that old technologies are superseded by new ones. Other popular phrases are "legacy" or "conventional".

The original Xbox is no longer available in the stores. That's because it has been superseded by the new model, which does everything the old one did, only better! Poor me who just doesn't have "the capital" to get myself the shiny new one just yet.

Apparently, that's the way you want me to think about immutability versus mutability in data structures. Makes no sense.



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