Came here to say this. I wouldn’t be surprised if swearing codebases are better in open source, but I would be surprised if swearing in your codebase makes it

Came here to say this. I wouldn’t be surprised if swearing codebases are better in open source, but I would be surprised if swearing in your codebase makes it better. (This paper only works to prove the former not the latter.) The obvious traditional opinion is that swearing indicates a lack of intelligence and therefore worse code. I’m just saying that this is on the front page because it’s spicy (the naively-inferred causation goes against the traditional intuition).