1)A programmer "joke" from way back - in a sammle program , where the name of variable was not important- one would write
foo = bar; the "joke" coming from theWorld War II acronym "FUBAR", which stands for : "Fouled Up Beyond All Repair" , except the 1st word *isn't* "Fouled" :-) . 2) Instead of building your own, one gets the keys from the builder and all the user has to do is "Turn" the "Key" to start. --- San Chee Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have some basic questions to the knowledgeable people out there : > > 1. Can some one tell me why sample variable or instance is usually named > "foo"? What does it stand for? > > 2. Why do we call a new project "turn-key" project? How does it comes about? > > It might not be related to Java explicitly, but a good software engineer > should know these, right guys? > > > > > To change your membership options, refer to: > http://www.sys-con.com/java/list.cfm > ===== Mark Zawadzki Performance Engineer/DBA/Programmer extraordinaire�[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winningRobert Cringle (columnist, author, host of "Triumph of the Nerds") __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.yahoo.com To change your membership options, refer to: http://www.sys-con.com/java/list.cfm
