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0 pointsjoeyphoen5mo ago0 comments

But you probably have seen the standard example variable names "foo" and "bar" which (together at least) come from `fubar`

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sunnybeetroot5mo ago

Which are in fact unrelated.

jameshart5mo 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.

worik5mo ago

Foobar == "Fucked up beyond all recognition "

Even the acronym is fucked.

My favorite by a large margin...

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