From: Kerry Buckley <home@...>
Date: 2006-05-16T01:07:53+09:00
Subject: Re: foo bar

On 14 May 2006, at 10:42 pm, John Gabriele wrote:

> 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...

http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/B/baz.html implies that it's  
been around since the 50s.

For some reason I always use foo, bar and wibble, but like you, I've  
no idea where I picked up the third one (probably Blackadder, but  
that doesn't explain why I started associating it with foo and bar).

Kerry