This Code Is $#&!

On the curious relationship between cursing and writing software

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Coding is a lot of things: Brain-teasing, challenging, fun, powerful, and thus liable to give its practitioners the occasional God Complex.

But primarily? Computer programming is deeply, agonizingly frustrating. (I’ve blogged about this before.) Computers are brutal, unforgiving taskmasters. It…