Foul Language hidden in programming code

[BradAMiller]

I would like to apologize for letting this happen and to explain the circumstances so perhaps we can all learn from this mistake.

The file in question was being developed by a WPI student, new to our development team. During a time of some frustration getting the camera code to work, the comment was added. It shouldn’t have been there in the first place and never got cleaned up before being pushed to our repository. When the student saw a post on reddit about the comment and realized they were talking about him, he contacted me immediately to let me know what he had done and how very sorry he was for the nonprofessional behavior. Like hitting the send button on an email message that maybe you should have slept on, once out, you can’t take it back. Something for all of us to remember.

The file has since been replaced in the most recent update.And you can be sure that going forward, we’ll take steps to ensure that everyone on the development team is aware of this and we’ll take steps to better verify submitted code.