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Re:Correlation Between the Use of Swearwords and Code Qualit... by mkj on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @06:54PM (#41715191)
The analysis doesn't seem to have controlled for the number of comments in code. Maybe commented code is higher quality, and comments have some chance of swearing.
Re:Correlation Between the Use of Swearwords and Code Qualit... by Rocka24 on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @07:14PM (#41715358)
I was also thinking the same thing. It should have been easy to parse for it because they were only checking articles in C anyways. Some frustrated coders could vent some rage against the machine in comments.