Re: Insults in the kernel-sources

From: Jesper Juhl
Date: Fri Jun 11 2004 - 10:46:10 EST


On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Tobias Hirning wrote:

> Hi people,
> have you ever tried a
> grep "insult" -i -r ./*
> in the sourcetree of the kernel?

sure.

> So do and think about, because the you can find to much of insults in
> the sources.

Why do you find this to be a problem? People use swear words everywhere,
why not code comments? If that's the language that best describes
something I say use it...
They are just words, nothing to get so worked up about IMO.
What matters is the quality of the code, not the level of profanity in the
comments.


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Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@xxxxxx>
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