Open source code with profanity in its comments is a sign of superior programming (PDF), according to a student at the Institute of Theoretical Computer Sciences (ITI) of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. Jan Strehmel, presenting his research in his thesis, analyzed more than 10,000 GitHub projects written in C for the presence of profanity in English, then ran a suite of code quality tests on them. — Read the rest
