Satan, Britney Spears Top Paris Hilton In OSS References

An anonymous reader writes "Krugle, a software search company, had some time on its hands — it compared frequency of mentions in open source code of presidential candidates, Beelzebub and yes, Britney Spears." I wish they'd link to a nice long list of the other terms this revealed — there are probably a lot of subtler funny references and asides.

Comments

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[Stanistani]

Would 'BS' count as a reference to Ms. Spears? Just asking.

Re:*snicker*

[njfuzzy]

What did they expect to accomplish by calling to scold a former employee?

Re:Am I missing something here?

[vertinox]

Why on earth would I want to have to reference the ParisHilton class? and how would that be helpful to other developers? This is silliness.

I think the reason why so many open source projects have odd comments or funny comments is that its being made by people who aren't being paid and don't have a manager breathing down their necks so they'll use whatever they'd like at the time. Personally I think comments are the best part of open source code.

My fav so far:

/* DRUNK. FIX LATER */

Source and some more amusing comments.