Hello All , Not to prolong this threads death ...
FUBAR , Old Military (& others) Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition
A less polite word was used in the original
then too:
foobar , To attempt to loose the 'Fouled' because of the less
polite word was used in the original
then too:
foo , for short .
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, pa3gcu wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 September 2002 13:23, Paul Kraus wrote:
> > What does foo stand for. It is used everywhere. I understand its just a
> > placeholder for the file name or what ever is pertinent to the context
> > it is used but I would still like to know what it means.
>
> I did read somewhere one that it was NIX terminoligy back when Unix was very
> young, FOOBAR , it got turned into /foo/bar as an "example" nothing more
> AFAIK.
> foo@bar is also seen sometimes, cant quite remember where tho.
>
>
>
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