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Comment Profanity by Language

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the dumb-dumb-stupid-face dept.

beret found a nifty little pie chart breaking down profanity in code comments broken down by language. He used Carlin's Seven Words, and C++ came out on top while PHP users are either wholesome or perfect.

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  1. Re:Perfect? by TheRaven64 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    In my personal opinion, developers like you are the reason why every single 'working' piece of Python code I've encountered has required me to spend time debugging it before actually using it.

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  2. Re:Perfect? by eln · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Most people skilled in a language (yes, even perl) can figure out what a piece of code actually does given enough time to look through it. The comments are to tell us what the code is *supposed* to do and *why*, so when we need to debug it we know what you were thinking when you wrote it and what you were trying to accomplish. When you're trying to figure out why a piece of code doesn't do what it's supposed to do, it's very helpful to know what it was supposed to do first.