I've certainly known the frustration of long debugging sessions
and been warned by my wife more than once about the salt air around
my computer, but I find time to tidy up before I publish.
As the Linux product becomes more professional it becomes more
and more tempting to use sections of it as examples for class discussion
and I would rather have the discussion on what the code does than
what the comments contain. All in all, if I see code with profanity
in it, it colors my view of its value and certainly makes me question
its use, especially for discussion.
My view on comments is if the author doesn't have pride in
his code and leaves explatives in it so be it. I won't have pride
in it either. For runtime messages, I concur, there is no proper
place for them in published code.
Hubert Bahr