Note that the word "deprecate" appears nowhere in that document.
replyThe wording at the end is quite clear, even if it does not use the exact word "deprecate":
reply> "NSA advises organizations to consider making a strategic shift from programming languages that provide little or no inherent memory protection, such as C/C++ and assembly, to a memory safe language when possible."
Deprecation is a speech act. It's something that can only occur if you use the word itself.
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