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- From: Jeremy Lee <jeremy_lee@ccmail.au.wang.com>
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- Subject: Re: Stupid Question: What does "foo" stand for?
- Date: 16 Jan 1996 21:54:20 GMT
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- Just Curious wrote:
- >Does anyone know what the generic function name "foo" stands for?
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- Its a bastardisation of the acronym FUBAR which stands for
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- Fkd
- Up
- Beyond
- All
- Recognition.
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- Its kinda cute that you hear it cited as a general name for a function,
- by C tutors in front of green students who, like the tutor, probably know
- nothing of the origin.
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