fozzard@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Richard Fozzard) (04/08/89)
In article <669@occrsh.ATT.COM> jdsb@occrsh.ATT.COM (John_Babcock) writes: >P.S. What is foo in foo.bat? My guess is that "foo", a common scratch name for things (files, etc.), esp. in LISP, comes from the military expression "foobar" or "fubar" - Fucked Up Beyond All Repair. Any other theories? ======================================================================== Richard Fozzard University of Colorado "Serendipity empowers" fozzard@boulder.colorado.edu
jyen@cs.utexas.edu (John Yen) (04/09/89)
In article <7999@boulder.Colorado.EDU>, fozzard@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Richard Fozzard) writes: > In article <669@occrsh.ATT.COM> jdsb@occrsh.ATT.COM (John_Babcock) writes: > >P.S. What is foo in foo.bat? > > My guess is that "foo", a common scratch name for things (files, etc.), esp. > in LISP, comes from the military expression "foobar" or "fubar" - Fucked Up > Beyond All Repair. Richard! And after all those other people tiptoed around the f-word. I'm just kidding. J*O*K*E. John Yen (jyen@cs.utexas.edu)
templon@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (jeffrey templon) (04/10/89)
I thought that it was "beyond all recognition", not "beyond all repair." Sounds a little nuttier, I think. In the same vein as SNAFU: "situation normal, all f**ked up." jt