Data on Swearing in Programming Languages

Re:Data on Swearing in Programming Languages by 5hoom on Sunday September 18, 2011 @08:19PM (#3011690)

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, & swears are naughty"

PHP: "Whats a commit?"

(ps. Just for fun, no flamebait intended!)

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Re:Data on Swearing in Programming Languages by wisty on Sunday September 18, 2011 @08:59PM (#3011779)

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

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Re:Data on Swearing in Programming Languages by snprbob86 on Sunday September 18, 2011 @10:01PM (#3011910)

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".

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Re:Data on Swearing in Programming Languages by damncabbage on Monday September 19, 2011 @12:02AM (#3012180)

Haskell and Lisp programmers are ascended beings, and are beyond the mortal desire to cuss in commit logs.

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Re:Data on Swearing in Programming Languages by jmillikin on Monday September 19, 2011 @12:54AM (#3012325)

I've sworn my fair share when trying to write Haskell bindings to libraries that assume all languages have global variables.

CPython's module initialization functions are particularly obnoxious about this.

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