[comp.misc] History: foo and fubar are unre

rjd@tiger.UUCP.UUCP (10/28/87)

> In article <516@unirot.UUCP> gib@unirot.UUCP (the gibster) writes:
> >After a recent poll at my home site [the kiosk, not on the net yet] I found
> >that the most popular random file names are (in order): fred, FRED, sam,
> >junk, and crap.  
> 
> What, no ``asdf'' or ``qwer'' which happen to be my favorite two.
> I'll give anyone $5 if they can type any other four letter word 
> with each key not located adjacent of each other faster than I can type
> ``asdf''.    I've noticed that people around here usually use
> ``foo'' and ``bar'' more for example data types than filenames.

 (I just use "pp", "ppp", "pppp", "ll", "lll", etc... for scratch files)

Randy