From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2006-05-15T11:49:04+09:00
Subject: Re: foo bar

I'm pretty sure they all originated -- in the computer science world,
that is -- at MIT in the early days of the Artificial Intelligence
program. My guess it was late 1950s or early 1960s -- somewhere around
the time Lisp 1.5 escaped from MIT.

John Gabriele wrote:
> On 5/14/06, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@cesmail.net> wrote:
>>
>> Speaking of FUBAR, SNAFU stands for "Situation Normal -- All F***** Up"
>>
>
> For a long time I've been using "foo", "bar", and "baz" as my big
> three made-up variable names. No idea where "baz" came from though. I
> think I'd heard it or seen it used somewhere, but can't recall...
>
>

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