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Is it OK to use abusive content on code?
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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"Brainfuck" is the name of a programming language; using the full name of the language is perfectly fine. We don't need to bowlderize proper names.
As for your other example - foul language in code samples - I'd say it's discouraged but not explicitly disallowed. If it's present in the original code, it makes sense to include it in the question, but we don't need to encourage gratuitous use of foul language on the site.
And in some cases, including the swear words can be necessary - such as a question about regex for detecting abusive language. It's kinda necessary to leave in in that case.
Essentially - use common sense; if it's essential to include, include it, including proper names of languages. If it's part of the original code it's probably not an issue, although replacing it (when originally posted by the OP) wouldn't be remiss either (not a huge deal either way). Gratuitous swearing isn't something we want to encourage here, though.
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