Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Profanity in the Linux Kernel?!?!? | From | Scott Jaderholm <> | Date | 08 Jun 1999 15:01:58 -0600 |
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Good Evenin',
I probably don't really have the right to say the following, because I don't contribute to the linux kernel. But I am going to say it anyways :)
I hope that I do not offend too many people.
cd /usr/src/linux ; grep -i fuck `find . -name '*.[ch]'`
It seems to me that if you are trying to make an OS that is going to be used by the masses you would try and present yourselves as best as possible. Using profanity to document your code doesn't seem all that appealing to me, but I don't know about others.
Is it really necessary? Someone could easily put "messed up" in place of it.
Anyways, I guess it is up to you guys whether you would like that stuff in there. I just wasn't sure how many of you knew how many times it was in there..
Cheers, Scott
P.S. Please CC to me, since I am not subscribed to this list (I tried it last night, but after getting 170 messages over night I decided it was too much)
P.S.S. BTW, I don't go looking for this type of thing. It is just that I heard about it in an IRC channel so I checked it out.
P.S.S. It would be kind of interesting to see how many times that word is used in some of the code that comes out of Redmond eh? But there is a difference, no one sees theirs (that doesnt make it right though).
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