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‘Fuck’ in Linux Kernel
- Fizzadar 13y agoOriginal: http://lowendtalk.com/discussion/13071/f-ck-in-linux-kernel http://lowendtalk.com/discussion/13071/f-ck-in-linux-kernel (auto-dead url for some reason) Raw: http://pastie.org/pastes/8285826/text http://pastie.org/pastes/8285826/text Same thing for sh!t: http://pastie.org/pastes/8285970/text http://pastie.org/pastes/8285970/text & Bloody: http://pastie.org/pastes/8285976/text http://pastie.org/pastes/8285976/text
- IlPeach 13y agoAlways baffled me how much fucked up some chipsets implementations are. I was expecting way more swearing throughout the Linux code :D
- _sabe_ 13y ago> I was expecting way more swearing throughout the Linux code Agree! The Linux kernel is millions of lines of code, and this was all the fucks in it? :O
- magnusgraviti 13y agoI remember few years ago making the same experiment while downloaded gentoo-sources and found much more at that time. :)
- Datsundere 13y agoIIRC there were guys going around recorrecting all the profanity words just to push a commit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLBrBBImJt4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLBrBBImJt4
- Fizzadar 13y agoAgreed! I did a quick scan for sh!t: http://pastie.org/pastes/8285970/text http://pastie.org/pastes/8285970/text & bloody: http://pastie.org/pastes/8285976/text http://pastie.org/pastes/8285976/text There's also LOADS of 'crap's in the code.
- adestefan 13y agoI once worked with a system controller that was suppose to work in both big and little endian. Too bad it just ignored the endian setup bit and would just truck along in little endian mode. These are the things I have nightmares about.
- jrockway 13y agoGroundbreaking research. He must have used tar AND grep!!
- general_failure 13y agoGit grep is better!
- ehamberg 13y agoCheck out the Linux Kernel Swear Count for graphs of the prevalence of various swear words in the Linux source code over the years: http://www.vidarholen.net/contents/wordcount/ http://www.vidarholen.net/contents/wordcount/
- winter_blue 13y agoI didn't know penguin was a bad word. In what sense is it being used in the kernel?
- mkenyon 13y agoTux, a penguin, is the official mascot of the Linux kernel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tux https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tux.
- winter_blue 13y agoYes I know about that. I was asking how "penguin" could ever be considered a swearword...
- mkenyon 13y agoI suppose it was more of a "This is interesting. While we are here..." addition to the data. I didn't mean to insult your intelligence regarding Tux. I just know that I would rather people not assume that I know things, especially when responding on the Internet.
- ma2rten 13y agoHere is the same sort of thing for the Windows source code: We Are Morons: a quick look at the Win2k source http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/2/15/71552/7795 http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/2/15/71552/7795
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- nawitus 13y agoWhy does the article title say "F*ck" instead of "Fuck"? What are we, 12-year-olds?
- seanmcdirmid 13y agoNo, but many of us are Americans. We have a weird sense of etiquette.
- lucb1e 13y agoWeird indeed. American programs on TV are often so annoying when all the "F-words" are bleeped out. Whenever someone strikes his finger with a hammer or whatever you can hear a bleep from three rooms away. Yeah sure now we'll never know what he said and our poor souls are saved from this profanity. It gets even funnier when the mouth is also blurred out.
- stephengillie 13y agoAnd many of us Americans say "fuck" on a daily basis. Your point?
- seanmcdirmid 13y agoAt work to your colleagues?
- booop 13y agoIf i may butt in: Yes. Many times with clients too. Just this week I was in a meeting with project managers and consultants from GE, Honeywell, Prysmian and Schneider electric and it was as if everyone was trying to one up each other on the 'fuck' count.
- stephengillie 13y agoExactly this. When a fucking router half-breaks at the colo and takes down our sites instead of failing over, we do use such language.
- crazytony 13y agoI wonder the word count for perkele?
- maxk42 13y agoTorvalds speaks Swedish, not Finnish. What's the Swedish equivalent?
- hvflykrur__ 13y agoFan, jävlar, satan. But I'm pretty sure that, while Torvalds' mother tongue is Swedish, he also speaks Finnish, not having been born in a Swedish-speaking part of Finland.
- exDM69 13y agoTorvalds speaks Finnish and Swedish, he is from a bilingual family. But the Swedish language has a very limited vocabulary in profanities so Linus curses in Finnish.
- cnvogel 13y agoFan! (according to the hilarious and magnificent http://youtu.be/AkJf0md1kG8 http://youtu.be/AkJf0md1kG8 )
- lucb1e 13y agoAn old programmer joke comes to mind: > What is the most used language in programming? > Profanity.
- jason_slack 13y agoLOL
- azernik 13y agoIn the ensuing hunt through the Linux sources, I discovered that there is a device called colloquially "Happy Meal Ethernet". I'm very amused to see a driver file [1] where the prefix to everything is happy_meal. [1] drivers/net/ethernet/sun/sunhme.c
- adestefan 13y agoThe Happy Meal is a very well known type of Sun Ethernet card found on just about every Ultra branded system with 10/100 interfaces. Under Solaris they're registered as hme devices.
- mkilling 13y agoI never understood the obsession with swear words in source code comments or 'creative' variable naming. It's childish, and I don't think the authors themselves found it funny anymore once they got off their caffeine high.
- jdiez17 13y agoYou don't swear in source code in an attempt to be funny. You do it when you're frustrated.
- forgottenpass 13y agoI never understand the condescension towards swearing. I accept it as a thing because the States can get so puritanical, but not swearing - other than in the presence of children - strikes me as one of those self-perpetuating norms that serve no real purpose other than proving you can conform to arbitrary norms. Similar to any other way of judging you on appearance like haircut, piercings, tattoos or dress. Sure there is value in being able to navigate those and get the advantages they confer, but why actually care about it? Or am I being obtuse and you're just playing along and perpetuating them for their own sake?
- arsenerei 13y agoHonest question: what's wrong with swearing in the presence of children? Is it an arbitrary norm, or is there a strong rationale behind it?
- icebraining 13y agoSwearing works best in moderation, with good timing. Children can't usually grasp such subtlety, they dilute its effects through overuse. Many adults do too, but that can't be helped.
- arsenerei 13y agoI accept your premise and I can believe children can't grasp that subtlety. I don't know of many adults who obey your premise, though.
- chris_wot 13y agoI noticed the word "fuck" when looking at some code comments in the LibreOffice codebase, and submitted a patch to remove it. I guess I was curious to see if they would accept it. They did!
- yogo 13y ago./drivers/scsi/qlogicpti.h Am I fucking pedantic or what?
- fnordfnordfnord 13y agoIs that all? I swear more than that at my shell some days.
- pshirishreddy 13y agoSearch the same in github https://github.com/torvalds/linux/search?q=fuck&ref=cmdform https://github.com/torvalds/linux/search?q=fuck&ref=cmdform