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  1. Path: news1.cris.com!Crawford
  2. From: Crawford@cris.com (CRAWFORD)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
  4. Subject: Re: Stupid Question: What does "foo" stand for?
  5. Date: 12 Feb 1996 20:34:58 GMT
  6. Organization: Concentric Internet Services
  7. Message-ID: <4fo89i$efb@spectator.cris.com>
  8. References: <DLA6o4.8s0@bcstec.ca.boeing.com> <1996Jan16.144939.8745@ohstpy> <31167aab.15607488@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> <4fktpb$rj@news1.sunbelt.net> <sconi-1102962136100001@ip-29.newportnet.net>
  9. Reply-To: crawford@iac.net
  10. NNTP-Posting-Host: voyager-fddi.cris.com
  11.  
  12. sconi@superstore.com (Chris Tiee "Chochoni Boboni") writes:
  13. >Wait a minute. There's another dumb question I have to ask. Why? Why do
  14. >they love to use "foo" so much?
  15.  
  16.     Tradition.
  17.  
  18. --
  19. "They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom, for trying to change
  20. the system from within."
  21.  
  22. Robert Crawford                crawford@iac.net
  23.