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I'd bet a lot of the non-profanity code is people open sourcing code just to be impressive on resumes or for school, where the profanity code is probably real code. Sounds likely to be a classic case of correlation != causation
I'm withholding my own judgement on that.
For anyone curious, the authors are coming up with a code quality score using an open-source tool called SoftWipe[0]. From the paper:
> SoftWipe is an open source tool and benchmark to assess, rate, and review scientific software written in C or C++ with respect to coding standard adherence. The coding standard adherence is assessed using a set of static and dynamic code analysers such as Lizard (https://github.com/terryyin/lizard) or the Clang address sanitiser (https: //clang.llvm.org/). It returns a score between 0 (low adherence) and 10 (good adherence). In order to simplify our experimental setup, we excluded the compilation warnings, which require a difficult to automate compilation of the assessed software, from the analysis using the --exclude-compilation option.
I'd bet a lot of the non-profanity code is people open sourcing code just to be impressive on resumes or for school, where the profanity code is probably real code. Sounds likely to be a classic case of correlation != causation
I would bet the opposite because I can make a blind assertion.
I'd bet a lot of the non-profanity code is people open sourcing code just to be impressive on resumes or for school, where the profanity code is probably real code. Sounds likely to be a classic case of correlation != causation
So, you're saying that my code won't improve simply by sprinkling F-Bombs everywhere?
if (*some_bullshit >= shit_tolerance){
fucks_given = 0;
exit(IM_DONE);
}
I'd bet a lot of the non-profanity code is people open sourcing code just to be impressive on resumes or for school, where the profanity code is probably real code. Sounds likely to be a classic case of correlation != causation
I thought this was cool, and was talking excitedly about it to my boss and some of the senior devs. They were less amused. Cut 20 years later and I too am less impressed by this.
Not that I think it's *bad* per se, I'm not clutching pearls or anything. But I never find myself thinking what the code really needs are profanities in the comments. Whereas back then I thought it'd be funny/cool and went out of my way to do so when I could. Which wasn't often.
Perhaps I could use this as an excuse for not reaching a deadline...
I remember reading that people who swear a lot are statistically smarter. I'm sure there are lots of caveats to that, as with the code. How long will it be before someone who doesn't understand causality starts encouraging developers to write profane comments? It wouldn't be any more absurd than lots of other non-causal behaviors I've seen pushed because somebody successful does them.
I personally have very different commenting styles between my work and personal projects. Not that any of it's good.
I remember reading that people who swear a lot are statistically smarter. I'm sure there are lots of caveats to that, as with the code. How long will it be before someone who doesn't understand causality starts encouraging developers to write profane comments? It wouldn't be any more absurd than lots of other non-causal behaviors I've seen pushed because somebody successful does them.