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Comment by sensanaty | Hacker News Reader

Lol I remember early in my career using "fuck" and "cock" a lot for debugging. Very quickly learned to not do that, I instead replaced it with "banana" for the most part

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banana has been there with me from the beginning! There's something weirdly satisfying about this particular word - the spelling, the sound and just sheer siliness just has a calming effect.

And for fine and trace logging, you've got bananana, banananana, etc.

"ba" + "na" * severity

To quote Sir Terry,

Nanny Ogg knew how to start spelling 'banana', but didn't know how you stopped.

Going through one file:

    IMPORTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANT

    _F for functions.
    _H for headers.
    _V for fuck knows.

There are funnier ones but I am lazy. :P

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