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New page: {{pubdate|19|October|2006}} Andrew Newman conducted a brilliant and significant [http://morenews.blogspot.com/2006/10/wtf.html study on how often programmers use f***], and he splitted it ...

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Andrew Newman conducted a brilliant and significant [http://morenews.blogspot.com/2006/10/wtf.html study on how often programmers use f***], and he splitted it on programming languages. Java developers f*** the least, whereas LISP programmers use it on every fourth opportunity. In absolute term, there are still more Java f***s, but less than C++ f***s.

Just to add a further number to the study -- because Andrew unexplicably omitted Python -- here's the data: about 196,000 files / 200 occurences -> 980. That's the second highest result, placing it between Java and Perl (note that the higher the number, the less f***s -- I would have normalized that by taking it 1/n, but, fuck, there's always something to complain).

Note that Google Code Search actually is totally inconsisten with regards to their results. A search for [http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=fuck f***] alone returns 600 results, but if you look for [http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=fuck+lang%3A%22c%2B%2B%22 f*** in C++] it returns 2000. So, take the numbers with more than a grain of salt. The bad thing is that Google counts are taken as a basis for a growing number of algorithms in NLP and machine learning (I co-authored a [http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/Publikationen/showPublikation?publ_id=975 paper that does that too]). Did anyone compare the results with Yahoo counts or MSN counts or Ask counts or whatever? This is not the best scientific practice, I am afraid. And I comitted it too. Darn.

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imported>Denny: New page: {{pubdate|19|October|2006}} Andrew Newman conducted a brilliant and significant [http://morenews.blogspot.com/2006/10/wtf.html study on how often programmers use f***], and he splitted it ...