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- From: Franz Korntner <fkorntne@bazis.nl>
- Subject: Re: Stupid Question: What does "foo" stand for?
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- Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 14:20:36 GMT
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- Larry Weiss wrote:
- >
- > Erick Wagner wrote:
- > >
- > > >Wait a minute. There's another dumb question I have to ask. Why? Why do
- > > >they love to use "foo" so much?
- > >
- > > "foo" is an abbreviated form of the term FUBAR
- > >
- > > The "nice" definition of FUBAR is Fouled Up Beyond All/Any Recognition
- > >
- > > It's the same "F" as in RTFM
- >
- > Yeah, RTFM == Read The FUBAR Manual 8-)
-
- I really liked that answer, but like many others, even I don't know what the
- word foo means. However I do know some locations on the net that
- describe jargon words, very handy for this kind of things:
-
- http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/?foo
- http://www.cnam.fr/Jargon/?686
- http://www.huis.hiroshima-u.ac.jp:80/Computer/Jargon/LexiconEntries/Foo.html
-
- I think this will clear thing up, at least... it did for me!
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