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		francasso on July 6, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Open source code with profanity in comments is sta... This is an example where correlation does imply causation IMHO

grayhatter on July 6, 2023 | [–]

The author of the paper suggests it's because the author of the code cares more, and is more passionate. Do you think it's just random chance there is a correlation, or do you have a better explanation for the results?

ftxbro on July 6, 2023 | [–]

adding swears into codebases would improve their quality

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