Occurences of swearing in the Linux kernel source code over time

Re:Occurences of swearing in the Linux kernel source code ov... by noworriesnate on Monday June 16, 2025 @10:29AM (#44289891)

Yeah I had a coworker who put salty MessageBox.Show debug messages in the code, and one day while demoing the software a pop up appeared that said “BITCH!!!”

Needless to say the customer was not amused. So the simple solution is just ban the bad words from the source code.

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Re:Occurences of swearing in the Linux kernel source code ov... by mcgrath_sh on Monday June 16, 2025 @10:36AM (#44289965)

I wrote something similar in another comment. This is where I have seen curse words bite teams too. It is always the needless "joke" when debugging that surfaces. Just go boring. No one gets offended by "check 001."

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Re:Occurences of swearing in the Linux kernel source code ov... by falcor84 on Monday June 16, 2025 @11:31AM (#44290546)

Well, I do get offended by "check 001" - please just put some words there about what was checked. The worst offender of course is "unexpected error occurred" - my PTSD is so triggered by that one. Just freaking give me some error details!

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Re:Occurences of swearing in the Linux kernel source code ov... by bee_rider on Monday June 16, 2025 @01:28PM (#44291545)

Swears are fine and good, slurs not so much.

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