robertd@ncoast.UUCP (Robert DeMarco) (12/13/86)
can some one tell me what foo is???
thanx
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[=====================================]randy@bcsaic.UUCP (Randy Groves) (12/16/86)
In article <1813@ncoast.UUCP> robertd@ncoast.UUCP (Robert DeMarco) writes: > > can some one tell me what foo is??? > The first syllable of foobar. -- =========================================================================== ... everything is full of sand!!! =========================================================================== randy groves ...!uw-beaver!uw-june!bcsaic!randy
mikem@athena.UUCP (Michael E. Meyer) (12/17/86)
Gee, I thought about responding to the original question, but thought everybody must surely know... For some computivia: Foo (I believe) came from "fubar" which was coined during Project MAC (Multics development) at MIT. It means: F...... Up Beyond All Reason ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ Somehow it was changed to FOObar. Don't know why, but perhaps someone else can elaborate OR correct me. Michael E. Meyer (503) 629-1553 Product Manager, Data Management Products CAE Systems Division TEKTRONIX, Inc P.O. Box 4600, DS 92-824 Beaverton, OR USA 97076
ucscb.infidel@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (01/05/87)
more error messages ... % ^saccharine Bad substitute.