Overuse of certian words, be they "thing", or "fuck", dulls your vocubaulary. Cutting certian words out of your vocabulary does the same, in a far more obvious way. That's beside the point, in a way, just an intersting asside.

Wether or not you should consider profanity in your code important is up, mostly, to how professional you want your code to look. If it's open source hobby programming, it's not that important -- you aren't trying to be professional. If it's closed source, it's not that important -- only your coworkers will know, and I'd like to think that if a little prophane language will get you booted or looked down upon, then it's not a very stable social situation, and it's probably best to polish up the old CV anyway. Now open code in an compony situation is the only place left, and how often does that really happen.

(It's worth noting, BTW, that I'm unemployed, though I've never been fired for swearing on the job -- though I did once get warned about it, at Staples.)

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In reply to Re: How clean is your code by theorbtwo
in thread How clean is your code by Vautrin

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