Ever find yourself staring at a tricky coding problem and thinking, “shit”? If those thoughts make their way into your code or the associated comments, youre in good company. When undergraduate student Jan Strehmel from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology analyzed open source code written in the programming language C, he found no shortage of obscenity. While that might be expected, Strehmels overall finding might not be: The average quality of code containing swears was significantly higher than...
