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- From: Erick Wagner <wagnere@netcom.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Stupid Question: What does "foo" stand for?
- Date: 15 Feb 1996 19:50:56 GMT
- Organization: PRC
- Message-ID: <4g02r0$7t3@maverick.tad.eds.com>
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- >Wait a minute. There's another dumb question I have to ask. Why? Why do
- >they love to use "foo" so much?
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- It's a nonsense word as well as a play on words. Real programmers like
- puns...
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- "foo" is an abbreviated form of the term FUBAR
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- The "nice" definition of FUBAR is Fouled Up Beyond All/Any Recognition
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- It's the same "F" as in RTFM
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