| ▲ | bandofthehawk 5 hours ago |
| General jargon like foobar is not that far off in meaning from "unfinished software". I think it's possible there's not really a contradiction between the different sources. The "unfinished software" meaning in the NYT article might have just been an example of one possible use of a more general nonsense word. |
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| ▲ | qsera 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Isn't it supposed to be fubar? fucked up beyond any recognition? |
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| ▲ | dahart 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Yes that’s the original spelling & meaning. But using the spellings foobar, foo, bar, and sometimes baz, have been used for decades in programming as examples, temporary names, stand-ins etc. I just assumed that spelling it foo was meant to distance it from the curse word slightly while simultaneously making the pronunciation more clear (i.e. foo not fuh); foo just makes a good nonsense word. | | | |
| ▲ | atoav 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foobar | |
| ▲ | ChrisClark 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | not in code, the tradition has been two words actually, foo and bar |
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| ▲ | Supermancho 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Note the Etymology of "Foo" RFC http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3092.html |
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| ▲ | aaron695 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
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