On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:54:24 +0200, Remo Cornali said: > > > Why is swearing bad? > > And I don't mean insulting someone or inapropriately cussing, > > I mean adding colour to life. > > IANAS. (I Am Not A Sociologist) > By common convention, I suppose. Swearing 'n cussing often border on > vulgarity > and blasphemy, and I don't think you would ask me why blasphemy is bad. > OT ALARM!!
At one time, some GNU utilities would enable borken-as-designed POSIX extensions if you had an environment variable called POSIX_ME_HARDER. Unfortunately, at some point they went corporate and renamed the variable to POSIXLY_CORRECT.
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