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Swear words which are deliberately offensive or pejorative should generally be avoided.

But there's no reason why flavoursome language can't be used to get across the developer's feelings about how fucking awful the shit piece of code they've just had to kludge something into was, and how much they're looking forward to clearing it up in a later release.

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