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Fan Area => The Hydlaa Plaza => Topic started by: Raleigh on May 14, 2007, 04:23:59 pm

Title: Linux Kernel Source Code isn't suitable for children
Post by: Raleigh on May 14, 2007, 04:23:59 pm

I can't believe this bizarre fact... No, I can't believe the devs of Linux wrote such stuff on the Kernel source:

Warning: Links show some swear-words and the statistics of how much they are found on the Kernels.

http://www.vidarholen.net/contents/wordcount/ (http://www.vidarholen.net/contents/wordcount/)

This history began from the following mail, some people claimed it was an urban legend(Also full of profanities):

http://durak.org/sean/pubs/kfc/kfc-email.txt (http://durak.org/sean/pubs/kfc/kfc-email.txt)

At least the statistics show that they are dimishing slowly ;)

Now why would someone write crap as comments on a source-code?

Title: Re: Linux Kernel Source Code isn't suitable for children
Post by: LigH on May 14, 2007, 07:13:00 pm

Microsoft sources aren't much better. They contain e.g. a lot of comments about insane code to circumvent something illogical.

But remember: They are comments. We do not yet discuss the code! :D

Title: Re: Linux Kernel Source Code isn't suitable for children
Post by: Lanarel on May 14, 2007, 08:57:03 pm

Quote from: Raleigh on May 14, 2007, 04:23:59 pm

Now why would someone write crap as comments on a source-code?

Crap is the only counted word increasing in number per line. I imagine this is because it is used mainlyas in "Who wrote this crap!", which will be used more the more bad code is written :)