Reading anything luke-jr has to say just aggravates me because of many of his claims, including things like saying cgminer is "deprecated" while it is clearly still being actively maintained, and writing that it has some kind of substandard FPGA support when he ends up copying code from cgminer's FPGA code implementation.
cgminer
is pretty much deprecated - as a GPU miner, in a world that has moved on from GPUs. cgminer's FPGA code, which came from and was maintained mostly by myself until you cut it off from its main development branch, is horribly outdated and mostly only grown worse as Kano incompetently tried to "improve" it - so your choice of "substandard" here is pretty accurate!
ROFL didn't you just say a few days ago that the GPU code in CGMiner and BFGminer are almost exactly the same? So why are you calling his GPU code "deprecated" and your isn't? And as much as you don't like Kano, or you don't like the changes he's making to FGPA, USB, or ASIC code, you simply just can't call his software "deprecated" if it's still being actively maintained and worked on.
I'm calling GPU mining in general deprecated. BFGMiner had FPGAs as the focus from the start; OpenCL support is there mainly because it doesn't hurt anything. BFGMiner also supports CPU mining. Both CPU and GPU mining are deprecated.