At 20:11 29/8/2001 +0100, you wrote:
>Why is it that every example uses foo and bar. In my head I put these
>together to get FUBAR, the meaning of which I won't spell out for Kyle's
>benefit.
>
>Is this what foo and bar refer to? And WHY are they used so extensively?
they don't mean anything...
see :
http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?query=foo
http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?query=bar
pretty interesting :)
regards,
Philip Olson
On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Seb Frost wrote:
> Why is it that every example uses foo and bar. In my head I put these
> together to get FU
Why is it that every example uses foo and bar. In my head I put these
together to get FUBAR, the meaning of which I won't spell out for Kyle's
benefit.
Is this what foo and bar refer to? And WHY are they used so extensively?
- seb
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