C code has higher code quality when it contains swear words

Alexis Stamatakis

@AlexisCompBio

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A Bachelor thesis in my lab makes a seminal contribution to software engineering – open source codes written in C on github have higher code quality when they contain swear words.

C source code without swear words

C source code with swear words

Proportion of repositories

0.30 –

0.25

0.20

0.15

0.10

0.05

0.00

2

4

Code quality score

8

2

4

6

Code quality score

10:56 PM • Feb 9, 2023 • 644.2K Views

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