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OpenJDK Bug Report Complains Source Code 'Has Too Many Swear Words' (java.net)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the professionalism dept.

Thursday a bug report complained that the source code for OpenJDK, the free and open-source implementation of Java, "has too many swear words." An anonymous reader writes: "There are many instances of swear words inside OpenJDK jdk/jdk source, scattered all over the place," reads the bug report. "As OpenJDK is used in a professional context, it seems inappropriate to leave these 12 instances in there, so here's a changeset to remove them."
IBM software developer (and OpenJDK team member and contributor) Adam Farley responded that "after discussion with the community, three determinations were reached":
  • "Damn" and "Crap" are not swear words.
  • Three of the four f-bombs are located in jszip.js, which should be corrected upstream (will follow up).
  • The f-bomb in BitArray.java, as well as the rude typo in SoftChannel.java, *are* swear words and should be removed to resolve this work item.

He promised a new webrev would be uploaded to reflect these determinations, and the bug has been marked as "resolved."


3 of 281 comments (clear)

  1. Re: Well, for an expansive definition of "bug" by MrMr · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I find people pretending to own an ios device by deliberately typing â(TM) instead of ' rather annoying.

  2. Re: Well, for an expansive definition of "bug" by Cmdln+Daco · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Apple just needs to deprecate 'Dumbquotes' to default as off, so people with iGadgets don't spam us with buggy comments.

  3. Re: Well, for an expansive definition of "bug" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You should look at it the other way around.

    Why doesn't any other platform have this issue?

    Shouldn't thr "smart quotes" understand that it's a standard apostrophe?