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Addenda: is this perhaps the dumbest fucking question to be asked on this board? Fuckin' A right it is. Can someone draw a line between this topic and something that actually matters to a startup?
if it doesn't matter, why reply?
Swearing in comments is unacceptable IMO. You wouldn't write swear words in internal documents, so why do it in code. It's unprofessional and shows a level of dis-respect for your own code and for the people who might end up maintaining it. Plus, heaven forbid a client happened to see it as well.
In addition, it's got nothing to do with working for a large corporation as I work for a small advertising software company with less then twenty employees.
Fuck yes! Just like the pros: http://www.jwz.org/doc/censorzilla.html
Swearing in comments is unacceptable IMO. You wouldn't write swear words in internal documents, so why do it in code. It's unprofessional and shows a level of dis-respect for your own code and for the people who might end up maintaining it. Plus, heaven forbid a client happened to see it as well.
We aren't building tractors, we're "painting" software and do whatever makes us feel more creative. In fact some really great hackers I knew were very passionate about their code and coding process in general. Once we had a dedicated Yellow Pages book to throw in a brick wall (literally). That was awesome. BTW, didn't you notice how often good programmers curse in public? I suspect we work in different industries.
A big honkin' "FUCK YOU" that showed up during QA 5 minutes before client showed up for review.
Never again.
I would not recommend doing this, but it definitely made me feel better.
I would not recommend doing this, but it definitely made me feel better.
I'll occasionally swear in a TODO comment, but all those get done and the comment gets erased.