The Most WTF-y Programming Languages

itwbennett writes "A couple of years ago, developer Sammy Larbi undertook a project to identify which languages had the most instances of the string 'WTF' in their GitHub code repositories. At the time, Objective C topped the list. ITworld's Phil Johnson has updated Larbi's research using GitHub data from the last 21 months, but instead of screen-scraping GitHub search results as Larbi had done, he queried the GitHub Archive for stand-alone instances of 'WTF' in the comments attached to GitHub commits to weed out cases where the string 'WTF' was legitimately used in the code. The three most baffling languages for 2012/13: C++, Lua, and Scala. Objective C comes in at #16."

Comments

Oblig....

[DougOtto]

WTF?

LICENSE.txt

[TeknoHog]

DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
Version 2, December 2004

Copyright (C) 2004 Sam Hocevar <sam@hocevar.net>

Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified
copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long
as the name is changed.

DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION

0. You just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO.

Objective-C

[Ukab the Great]

We Objective-C developers prefer more verbose WTF statements, such as

- (void)whatTheFuckAreYouDoing:(NSString *)wtf withThatAbsurdAlgorithm:(NSString *)algorithm thatOnlyOnePersonOnDevTeamUnderstands:(BOOL)doesHeReallyUnderstandIt;

I'm going to find out the best language...

[ddd0004]

by using the search term "l33t".

Re: One for one

[jd2112]

Everything written in PHP looks like it was written on PCP.

Re:Oh good grief.

[ShanghaiBill]

Languages are irrelevant.

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Re:Oh good grief.

[Anonymous Coward]

and even WHOSE