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- From: nngis@norfolk.infi.net (Greg DiGiorgio)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Stupid Question: What does "foo" stand for?
- Date: 18 Jan 1996 15:08:51 GMT
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- References: <DLA6o4.8s0@bcstec.ca.boeing.com> <4dh6qc$mbv@chianina.au.wang.com>
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- In article <4dh6qc$mbv@chianina.au.wang.com>,
- jeremy_lee@ccmail.au.wang.com says...
- >
- >Just Curious wrote:
- >>Does anyone know what the generic function name "foo" stands for?
- >Its a bastardisation of the acronym FUBAR which stands for
- >Fkd
- >Up
- >Beyond
- >All
- >Recognition.
- >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.
- >
-
- *** Boy, oh boy, oh boy! I jes' neva no whats I gonna learn heah in
- *** dis forum. Outta all that techno-junk I reads heah, I's learnin'
- *** sumpin' real portant now. Forgit all dat program stuff, dis whats
- *** I wanna heah. No mo' 'C' agin' BASIC or Pascal dyin'. No way!
- *** I's a gonna lern 'bout cussin' and stuff. :)
- Greg DiGiorgio
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