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I have performed an unscientific survey of people who are working in coding and cybersecurity to see what language they use most often.

The result: profanity.

@arclight @spaf I was told that this behavior is the origin of the verb “to recurse”.

@spaf @hacks4pancakes Hey, now. I remember to remove those comments before I push a commit. Usually.

@spaf Now that is a statement I can stand behind 😂

@spaf All software is composed of equal parts, caffeine, pizza, frustration, and profanity.

@spaf can confirm. I was in the office for the first time in weeks today. I kept biting off creative expletives.

@spaf haha I didn't realize it was you when I first read it.

@spaf I discovered this in the worst way this week, actually.

I have a broken wrist, and about halfway through the day can't type anymore.

Was using dictation software to try and write an email with a testing plan.

Software really sucked at getting normal words right, but really worked hard to pick up "fucking" and "piece of shit", probably because I was talking about it :)

@spaf @indi404 operators like !, $, ? and & are the quiet profanity that makes the code work.

@twt @spaf @indi404 this makes Perl the most effective programming language

@spaf Ah, I see you still remember my office :)

@spaf WHAT THE F*$!ING F%#& B@#^$#!× DID I JUS- oh. Yeah. I see your point.

@spaf and this is why QTs should be a thing, I reckon.

@spaf this is also true in healthcare.

@spaf beautifully layed out, well commented profanity that is.

@spaf then can we stop iOS autocorrecting my use of fuck and shit?

@spaf this is when being multi-lingual can be an advantage: when you run out of expletives in one language, there's a whole new set in the other language.

@spaf I can confirm through nearly two decades of working in all aspects of IT that it's not just infosec and coders

@spaf I've mostly moved on from profanity to disappointed sighs

@NateHark @spaf ahh I see you have been in security for 3+ years then

@spaf yesterday I may or may not have made a variable named wtaf

@spaf I have traded in my diegetic summer New England "for fuck's sake," for a more smoldering New Jersey autumn baseline "you gotta be fuckin kidding me" to spice things up.

@spaf This MUST be turned into a programming language. After all, there's already whitespace and ArnoldC

@spaf you can tell how frustrated I am by whether my variable are stuff like $records or $fuckthis

@spaf that’s the human race right thar… that’s funny… I don’t care who ya are!

@spaf This is the main reason why I don't like open plan cubicle office spaces. Muttering things to myself is essential to the process.

@spaf And here I thought no one actually read my code comments. ;-)

@spaf
A well placed, wtf, is a key debugging tool.
@jkbecker

@spaf The Words of Power are essential to my workflow.

@spaf That abso-fucking-lutely matches my experience. 😹