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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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