arnold@gatech.UUCP (08/30/83)
I have noticed that when computer people need an identifier
to act as a place holder, they often use some combination of 'foo' and 'bar',
and occasionally 'baz.' I myself have done it.
What I am curious about is, where did this come from? Who first
did it? This is not of earth-shaking importance, just some (very) idle
curiosity.
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Arnold Robbins
arnold@gatech (CS Net) arnold.gatech@udel-relay (ARPA)
...!{sb1, allegra}!gatech!arnold (uucp)mark@cbosgd.UUCP (08/31/83)
Anyone who posts a followup to this question will be shot! (Should it prove inconvenient to shoot such people, please take them gently aside and hand them a copy of the netequette document to read.) If you want to know the answer, go read the netequette document that you were supposed to read before you started getting news. This is all we need on net.general - another FOOBAR discussion. (By the way, would all the handgun flamers please go off in some other newsgroup? The rest of the net is sick of this topic in net.followup, which is an incredibly inappropriate place. I suspect net.legal or net.social is more appropriate.) Mark Horton
grunwald@uiuccsb.UUCP (09/03/83)
#R:gatech:-42500:uiuccsb:3200004:000:127 uiuccsb!grunwald Sep 2 16:26:00 1983 Actually, if you'll look at your VAX-11/780 hardware manual, you'll find that FUBAR stands for Failed UNIBUS Address Register.