‘Fuck’ in Linux Kernel
Why does the article title say "F*ck" instead of "Fuck"? What are we, 12-year-olds?
Check out the Linux Kernel Swear Count for graphs of the prevalence of various swear words in the Linux source code over the years:
An old programmer joke comes to mind:
> What is the most used language in programming?
> Profanity.
Original: http://lowendtalk.com/discussion/13071/f-ck-in-linux-kernel (auto-dead url for some reason)
Raw: http://pastie.org/pastes/8285826/text
Same thing for sh!t: http://pastie.org/pastes/8285970/text
& Bloody: http://pastie.org/pastes/8285976/text
Here 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
I 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.
Always baffled me how much fucked up some chipsets implementations are.
I was expecting way more swearing throughout the Linux code :D
In 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
Groundbreaking research. He must have used tar AND grep!!
I 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!
Is that all? I swear more than that at my shell some days.
I wonder the word count for perkele?
./drivers/scsi/qlogicpti.h Am I fucking pedantic or what?
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Search the same in github https://github.com/torvalds/linux/search?q=fuck&ref=cmdform