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- From: "Patrick K. Notz" <notz0001@gold.tc.umn.edu>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Stupid Question: What does "foo" stand for?
- Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 22:59:53 -0600
- Organization: University of Minnesota
- Message-ID: <3126B249.2E9B@gold.tc.umn.edu>
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- On Sun, 11 Feb 1996 21:36:09 -0800, sconi@superstore.com (Chris Tiee "Chochoni
- Boboni") wrote:
- >Wait a minute. There's another dumb question I have to ask. Why? Why do
- >they love to use "foo" so much?
-
- i thought it came from fubar (F$#!ed Up Beyond All Recognition) - an old military acronym
- and was recast as foo and bar... i.e., if(foo==bar) return 0;
-