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- tylerni7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+57Holy *****! Look at the ratio of ***** per source file for C! (0.003141593) Perhaps we have found a new way to calculate pi? At the very least an incredible coincidence.
- CrookedAsterisk, on 10/12/2007, -2/+40Funny how so many people have a tendency to swear when Internet Explorer's involved.
http://www.google.com/codesearch?hl=en&lr=&q=%*****%*****%29+%22internet+explorer%22 - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+31$hit would be better
- Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+30// some ***** factorial code
int fact(int n)
{
int ***** = 1; // initialize that *****
for (int ***** = 2; ***** <= n; *****++) // loop the ***** outta the *****
***** *= *****; // ***** up the *****
return *****; // roll that ***** out
}
Hey, this is great! - daborg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19lol: "***** = Array.new"
- EvolvedAnt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19A while ago I had my heart broken.
I feel sorry for whoever has to maintain the source code of a project I worked on during that time.
They'd see things like this:
Const stabbing_In_My_Heart As String = "{GUID...}"
Private levelOfPain As Double
Public laughingAtMe As Integer
Const love4YouOnly As Double
Private alone_and_now As Single - burke, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12I think it's because there's really no barrier to entry with PHP. Any 12-year-old with a myspace can decide to get their own website, then fool around with PHP and come the glorious realization that variable names can be four letters long.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+15or windows:
http://www.google.com/codesearch?hl=en&lr=&q=%*****%*****%29+%22windows%22 - theman8631, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Heres one of my favorites I found in googles code search. Its code for a pearl module.
"# ***** the users, ***** them up their stupid asses"
lol thats a frusterated programmer.
http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=+*****+asses+show:37Gkc1BT1kE:sE9vkWlbCXw:Mt0Dmy2QOXM&sa=N&cd=1&ct=rc&cs_p=http://backpan.perl.org/authors/id/R/RC/RCLAMP/Siesta-0.62.tar.gz&cs_f=Siesta-0.62/lib/Siesta/Member.pm#a0 - nipuL, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10It's official. Python reduces stress :D
- arrenlex, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11> Sounds like you got dumped for a good reason. Grow a pair.
Don't be a jerk. - stretch611, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Profanity is the one language all programmers know...
- glock22ownr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Hehehehe, I took over for a guys source code that swore in Spanish in his comments, and badmouthed the company too...
- misteral, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Interesting he didn't include Java. Say what you want about Java, there's lots of workarounds that typically elicit lots of colorfull comments.
Found 3,000 out of approx. 800,000 files, which at 0.00375 per, puts it high on his scale - bmcnitt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I knew our team was programming in circles!
- leomyhero, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I love the academic style of this article with ***** peppered about. It reminds me of my an economic journal with all the graphs...he just needs a few equations and a Phillips curve and it would be perfect.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+13or linux:
http://www.google.com/codesearch?hl=en&lr=&q=%*****%*****%29+%22linux%22&btnG=Search - predius, on 10/12/2007, -7/+13Haha, I was about to post it. Thanks for doing it.
- jtek99, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7What's going on with all those PHP programmers and their sailors' mouths?
- Canute, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I'm a PHP programmer myself, and I can safely say that I have used my share of swear words in my source code!
Perhaps it's the lack of creativity. Why call a variable $myFile, when it can just as well be called $*****. - Pigeon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5/* Sun, you just can't beat me, you just can't. Stop trying,
* give up. I'm serious, I am going to kick the living *****
* out of you, game over, lights out.
lol - chrismtz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5http://www.duggmirror.com/programming/Swears_in_the_Source_Code/
- kurrent, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4bill gates must die
http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=+%22bill+gates%22+show:dVUyf0Idhos:TivcggK3lH8:c1NPmo9ehxE&sa=N&cd=5&ct=rc&cs_p=http://gentoo.osuosl.org/distfiles/zinf-2.2.5.tar.gz&cs_f=zinf-2.2.5/ui/zinf/include/Control.h#a0 - kcasper, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I guess that makes C that language that has a relationship between swearing and circular code.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Like a comment on the web page notes, it's probably more like people write more foul-language filters in PHP than in C#.
- rdoger6424, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3they must be programming in *****
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/*****#***** - burke, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3What the '*****'? That's the craziest thing I've seen in weeks.
- ABadInAlbany, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3you are retarded
- acoot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3('A wedding is a funeral where a man smells his own flowers.',NULL,NULL),
Amazing! - nofxjunkee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3PHP can be frustrating, especially trying to write proper OO code (yes, OO in PHP5 is still a hacked up bandaid solution).
I know that I definitely think "*****!" while I'm coding in PHP more than in (say) Python. - ogre2112, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@burke
Thinking the same thing. I have a feeling that the higher-level languages would all be similar. - sakabako, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3http://www.google.com/codesearch?hl=en&lr=&q=%*****%*****%29+%22+ie+%22&btnG=Search
most people say IE instead of Internet Explorer - predius, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That's why I first looked for how many results there were for each programming language, then used that to divide the number of *****.
- ahk057, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://blog.predius.org.nyud.net:8080/2006/10/05/*****-per-source-package-and-license/
- dtfinch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Taking this to the next logical step, I found 27 ***** in 209 LGPL licensed PHP source files, giving 0.129 ***** per source file.
- dtfinch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The average per-license and per-language results seem to disagree by almost an order of magnitude
- blackthorn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1search the code of fsck(8) ...... LOL
After check spelling, it sugest me to change fsck to f*ck ,, LOL++ - ogre2112, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wild!
- sakabako, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1meant to reply
- anagramarama, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1ianas but surely there is more c code around the place and would therefore score higher, more interesting would be a balanced view of ***** per line per language or something
still funny though - f00zy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0One would expect fewer swear words in non-compiled/scripting languages because it's a little harder to hide the offense from the boss. It might be interesting to throw together some regular expressions to see just how much the boss sucks.
- thealmostrealmc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0anyone looked at the old netscape code yet ?
http://www.jwz.org/doc/censorzilla.html - BlueQueen, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Excellent!
But maybe you should do your study again by showing only comments :) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Programmers are gays
http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=sodomy - neilpan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1http://tinyurl.com/ohfpe
- kdubbz6688, on 10/12/2007, -10/+7dugg to death at 31 diggs
- wolf08, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0That's awsome!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1"Swears in the Source Code"
What's a "swear"? - caleb4mj, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1Yes, but notice the difference in context and usage. Which would you say looks more professional?
- johnnybluejeans, on 10/12/2007, -12/+3@EvolvedAnt
Sounds like you got dumped for a good reason. Grow a pair. -
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