in c/c++ programming people often call their variables foo and bar
why ?
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Heinrich Pumpernickel wrote:
in c/c++ programming people often call their variables foo and bar
why ?
<http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/F/foo.html>
Robert Gamble
On Sun, 03 Sep 2006 22:02:57 -0700, Heinrich Pumpernickel wrote:
in c/c++ programming people often call their variables foo and bar
why ?
fucked up beyond all recognition
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Lars Rune Nøstdal wrote:
On Sun, 03 Sep 2006 22:02:57 -0700, Heinrich Pumpernickel wrote:
>in c/c++ programming people often call their variables foo and bar
why ?
fucked up beyond all recognition
Slightly off topic but the first time I heard this referenced was in
Saving Private Ryan. As an in-joke amongst the men, excluding the new guy.
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Lars Rune Nøstdal wrote:
On Sun, 03 Sep 2006 22:02:57 -0700, Heinrich Pumpernickel wrote:
>in c/c++ programming people often call their variables foo and bar
why ?
fucked up beyond all recognition
The last word is 'repair' as I learned it years ago. US Military FUBAR.
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"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
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Lars Rune Nøstdal wrote:
On Sun, 03 Sep 2006 22:02:57 -0700, Heinrich Pumpernickel wrote:
in c/c++ programming people often call their variables foo and bar
why ?
fucked up beyond all recognition
But that doesn't explain why it's "foo" instead of "fu".
Obviously, when the WWII vets returned home, their wives
would get mad if they swore in front of their children. Hence,
my dad told us that SNAFU meant "Siuation Normal: All
Fouled Up". It was much later that I learned the original
meaning was "Fucked Up".
Not that your wife wouldn't get mad at you even if you didn't
swear. Such as the time my dad refered to our tomcat as
"the ball-bearing mouse trap".
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In article <11**********************@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups .com>, me********@aol.com <me********@aol.comwrote:
>But that doesn't explain why it's "foo" instead of "fu".
"fu" would obviously not be an English word.
-- Richard
Richard Tobin wrote:
In article <11**********************@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups .com>,
me********@aol.com <me********@aol.comwrote:
>But that doesn't explain why it's "foo" instead of "fu".
"fu" would obviously not be an English word.
-- Richard
Nonsense. Kung Fu is English isn't it? :-)
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Joe Wright wrote:
Lars Rune Nøstdal wrote:
On Sun, 03 Sep 2006 22:02:57 -0700, Heinrich Pumpernickel wrote:
in c/c++ programming people often call their variables foo and bar
>
why ?
fucked up beyond all recognition
The last word is 'repair' as I learned it years ago. US Military
FUBAR.
I've seen it both was, "repair" was more common in engineering, I
suppose as engineers would be expected to attempt repairs.
Brian
Heinrich Pumpernickel wrote:
in c/c++ programming people often call their variables foo and bar
why ?
I don't know for sure, but it seems to have started on the US East
Coast.
We didnt know about it here in the MidWest, until I submitted a bug
report to DEC, in Marlborough, MA.
The commands they typed to (incorrectly) reproduce the bug were
something like:
..EDIT FOO.TXT
# I
THIS IS A LINE WITH TABS
this is a line with spaces
^L
# W
# Q
..COPY FOO.TXT BAR.TXT
..EDIT BAR.TXT
# ^C
# W
# Q
..COMPARE FOO.TXT BAR.TXT
0 differences.
..DEL FOO.TXT BAR.TXT
"Heinrich Pumpernickel" <la****@linuxmail.orgwrites:
in c/c++ programming people often call their variables foo and bar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasyntactic_variable
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