Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Jun 1999 16:52:07 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Michael B. Trausch" <> | Subject | Re: Profanity in the Linux Kernel?!?!? |
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On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, David Chappell wrote: > > On Wed, 09 Jun 1999, Kelley Spoon wrote: > > > Someone else brought up the point about censoring work other people > > contributed, and I agree with that. I have absolutely no problem > > with a developer calling a spade a spade. > > It should be pointed out that they aren't calling spades spades. No > copulating, voiding of excrement, or condemnation to an afterlife of > torture actually occur in the Linux kernel. ;) >
ROFL!!! I couldn't help but LMAO when I read that... That's very funny... hehehe... > Also, many of these words (such as hell and damn) are expletives, > meaning that they do not contribute anything to the sense of the > sentence, except perhaps to express the author's annoyance. >
Exactly. That has become the purpose of those words -- in fact, that's the only times that I've really heard/seen them were in times of frustration.
> I would suggest that looking for obcenities in kernel messages would > be a good way to find poorly written messages which should be made > more explicit and helpful. >
Hm. Which would you rather have in YOUR kernel?
"Fatal Exception 0E at address 349f930d:020a34ff"
Or
"Something fucked up. This shouldn't happen." "oops 00"
Personally, I'd rather see something say "Something fucked up" and maybe a description of it, in HUMAN READABLE terms (e.g., readable by non-programmers and CS majors) as opposed to "fatal exception 0E..." which really tells a user NOTHING about what just happened.
> The reason this kind of language is still seen as unprofessional in at > least some quarters is that it is more common amoung the illiterate > and because it introduces topics with distictly unpleasant aspects > into a context in which they are entirely irrelevant. >
Well, they may be unprofessional, however, they are very concise, and well understood among all of us humans, no?
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