From: Matt Long <robothor@...>
Date: 2006-05-15T13:28:06+09:00
Subject: Re: foo bar

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Matt

On 14 May , 2006, at 10:49 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:

> 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...
>>
>>
>
> -- 
> M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
>
> http://linuxcapacityplanning.com
>
>

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