Data on Swearing in Programming Languages • Hacker News Board

Re: Data on Swearing in Programming Languages

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Post by olliesaunders » Mon, Sep 19, 2011, 12:45 AM UTC

There’s something really fishy about this. Or, if there isn’t, I really want an explanation.

Re: Data on Swearing in Programming Languages

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Post by vbtemp » Mon, Sep 19, 2011, 12:46 AM UTC

Almost all of my work is either in C or python. When I do my embedded system development in C, I generally spend my day swearing at myself and cursing the world. When I do other components in python generally thing "wow. that was easy and fast. And it's so expressive. Wow! I'm in a great mood!". It makes perfect sense to me.

Re: Data on Swearing in Programming Languages

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Post by aba_sababa » Mon, Sep 19, 2011, 12:46 AM UTC

Ha. I just made a hack about this at PennApps - http://www.commitlogsfromlastnight.com

Re: Data on Swearing in Programming Languages

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Post by wisty » Mon, Sep 19, 2011, 12:59 AM UTC

5hoom wrote: post #7

I'm sure this same story came up a while ago, but whatever. Here's my take on the type of swearing in commits as per the story (XXXX represents swearword of your choice). C++: "Finally fixed it. My XXXX head hurts" Javascript/Ruby: "Finished adding 15 new features. I am XXXX awesome" C: "No time to swear, busy hacking. Oh XXXX whoops" Java/C#: "Wouldn't swear, unprofessional & boss is watching" Python: "All happy, &…

I'm willing to bet a lot of the Javascript obscenity is "F*ck browser X", or words to that effect.

Re: Data on Swearing in Programming Languages

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Sep 19, 2011, 1:11 AM UTC

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Re: Data on Swearing in Programming Languages

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Post by techdmn » Mon, Sep 19, 2011, 1:18 AM UTC

I don't swear in comments or commit messages, but I do often catch myself quietly muttering a string of obscenities while coding. At least I hope it's quiet.

Re: Data on Swearing in Programming Languages

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Post by orblivion » Mon, Sep 19, 2011, 1:39 AM UTC

jurre wrote: post #2

How can there be so little swearing with php? That's all I'm doing when forced writing that language. Love this type of stuff though!

No kidding. Usually it's "...what the fuck?" when reading the documentation.

Re: Data on Swearing in Programming Languages

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Post by wickedchicken » Mon, Sep 19, 2011, 1:54 AM UTC

I'm going to assume that at least 25% of swearing in Ruby is attributable to William Morgan: http://sup.rubyforge.org/svn/trunk/lib/sup/imap.rb

Re: Data on Swearing in Programming Languages

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Post by crikli » Mon, Sep 19, 2011, 1:57 AM UTC

I'm surprised at the Javascript figure. I leave a few swears in server-side script but the only people that will see that are other programmers; Javascript, anyone can read that.

That said, I've found a couple of rants in my old JS from the IE6 days that, well, if I clean them up they're not really sentences.

Re: Data on Swearing in Programming Languages

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Post by snprbob86 » Mon, Sep 19, 2011, 2:01 AM UTC

wisty wrote: post #14

5hoom wrote: post #7

I'm sure this same story came up a while ago, but whatever. Here's my take on the type of swearing in commits as per the story (XXXX represents swearword of your choice). C++: "Finally fixed it. My XXXX head hurts" Javascript/Ruby: "Finished adding 15 new features. I am XXXX awesome" C: "No time to swear, busy hacking. Oh XXXX whoops" Java/C#: "Wouldn't swear, unprofessional & boss is watching" Python: "All happy, &…

I'm willing to bet a lot of the Javascript obscenity is "F*ck browser X", or words to that effect.

I know that the most popular tag in our issue tracker is #fuckie.

It's particularly fun to pronounce allowed as if it rhymed with "ducky".