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Is it OK to use abusive content on code?

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In SO, I had saw that a person was writing lot of abusive words inside code. Just like,

if(a==b){
    print("f***")
}

I had flagged on that post with little bit explanation.

The user gave some abusive content.

But, they declined and said that, that's the code of author. But, there's lot of young programmers right there also. Those type of words can "distract" them. So, I want to know if it OK to post like that in Software Codidact also.

Cause, in this post @JohnDoea had written word (Brainfuck) like this.

Should we mark those posts as rude or other reason?

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Lundin‭ wrote over 3 years ago

Generally, we shouldn't use the worst cases of cursing such as the F word because those collide with the "be nice" code of conduct. But in some cases the name of programming languages are curses such and then we need to be able to refer to them with their name.