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Removing features is impossible. The best you can do is starting over once in a while.



You can sometimes get away with removing features under the guise of a "compact" version for a new platform, e.g. OSX -> iOS, WPF -> Silverlight


Some ppl in Microsoft see F# as exactly this fresh start.


IIRC Java has removed features in the past by marking them as deprecated for several releases and then removing them.




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