From: Bill Guindon <agorilla@...>
Date: 2006-05-16T04:00:25+09:00
Subject: Re: foo bar

On 5/15/06, Kerry Buckley <home@kerrybuckley.com> wrote:
> 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).

Also used foo, bar, baz.  Wibble was news to me, had never seen it
until I read the PragProg SVN book [1].  Now, it's my default project
for doing SVN experiments.

[1] http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/svn/index.html

> Kerry
>
>


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