From: Sergey Volkov <gm.vlkv@...>
Date: 2006-05-14T12:20:31+09:00
Subject: Re: foo bar

..
When ‘foo’ is used in connection with ‘bar’ it has generally traced to the 
WWII-era Army slang acronym FUBAR (‘Fucked Up Beyond All Repair’ or ‘Fucked 
Up Beyond All Recognition’), ...

... and lot of many other interesting facts about programming history and 
culture you can find at
http://www.catb.org/jargon

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "corey konrad" <0011@hush.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2006 9:12 PM
Subject: foo bar


> where does all the foo and bar references come from, is that from
> duntemans assembly book from way back in the day? He had a fake martian
> counting system with foo bar bas foobidity etc to use as an example of
> how to think differently ab out numbers. Its interesting how that has
> become almost a standard with code examples in so many languages.
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