For comparison, “amazing” occurs six times.

Only one of them barely reaching 200. For the size of the Linux kernel I find these numbers surprisingly low.

Coding is a very… emotional activity. We get a bit salty sometimes.

I remember commenting a particularly bad routine with “Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch’intrate”.

There are also phrases such as “by the process of offending god, this somehow outputs…” and “This block was written by someone whose sanity was not so much questionable as it was entirely reprehensible - but it works”.

I also remember doing a search and replace of every instance of the word “fuck” with “[fornicate]” when bringing someone new onto a project.

I would have expected the comments to be pretty dry and to the point. Thos eare some interesting stats. 🤣

That sharp drop of fucks is when Torvalds took some time off to work on his anger issues

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/09/linus-torvalds-apologizes-for-years-of-being-a-jerk-takes-time-off-to-learn-empathy/

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-4.18-Released

Most uses of ‘retard’ are in variable names like B43legacy_OFDMTAB_ADVRETARD but we also have

The switch is so retarded that it makes our command/entry abstraction crumble apart.

and

we shouldn't need asm for this, but gcc is being retarded

Now do in GTA V source code