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joeyphoen
244 days ago
But you probably have seen the standard example variable names "foo" and "bar" which (together at least) come from `fubar`
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sunnybeetroot
244 days ago
Which are in fact unrelated.
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jameshart
244 days ago
Unclear. ‘Foo’ has a life and origin of its own and is well attested in MIT culture going back to the 1930s for sure, but it seems pretty likely that it’s counterpart ‘bar’ appears in connection with it as a comical allusion to FUBAR.
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worik
244 days ago
Foobar == "Fucked up beyond all recognition "
Even the acronym is fucked.
My favorite by a large margin...
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