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I think there might be a difference between FOSS and closed source software. I tend to agree with the interpretation that swear words are signalling emotional i
by chromanoid 2y ago
I think there might be a difference between FOSS and closed source software. I tend to agree with the interpretation that swear words are signalling emotional investment.
In my experience in closed source software swear words tend to point to deadline-driven dread of not getting it right while in FOSS it tends to describe disbelief about third-party APIs and platform bugs that have to be accomodated for.
- gopher_space 2y agoFrom my perspective comments (and error messages) in closed source software tend to form a narrative structure than their Open counterpoints can't really get away with. We aren't going to erase comments like ###EVERYTHING BELOW THIS LINE IS BULLSHIT because the guy who wrote it really knew what he was talking about and nobody has the time to look into it. Dick jokes etc. in Open software just make it a school project... unless it's something like printing a giant dick once a millennium, or a dick acrostic only visible in some ancient terminal default.