TIL How many Fucks there are in Linux

POSTED ON: Feb 13, 2023

TAGS: comments git image

I saw this post "Code with swearing is better code.",

and a reddit commenter shared a sweet tool that measures the word count of specific words in the linux kernel.

Check the whole thing out at https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/wordcount/

"Fuck" #

• "Fuck" first showed up on Sept 17th, 1991
• The next "Fuck" would occur on June 6, 1995
• Peak "Fuck" would be July 7th, 2005 at 68 counts
• The great "Fuck Purge" was from Jan 31, 2018 (39) to March 5, 2019 (15).
• As of Today (Feb 2, 2023), we are steady at 13 "Fucks"

Hack, Workaround, todo, and Fix me #

The one made me laugh.

As of today:

• 1,651 hacks
• 2,863 workarounds
• 4,102 fixme

via Open source code with swearing in the comments is statistically better than that without

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