Ben A L Jemmett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>'Foobar' is basically the same thing - however, don't get it confused with
>FUBAR which has an ever so *slightly* different meaning.
>From which "foo" and "bar" almost certainly derive, however...
>BTW, does anyone have a URL for a recent edition of the File? My copy bit
>the dust when the batteries fell out of my palmtop.
Try here: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/
Great stuff, history and humor in one place. Recommended. I at one
point owned the *original* paperback -- the red Guy L. Steel version --
and I am terribly ashamed to say that I lost it. Weep, weep!
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