mapjilg@gdr.bath.ac.uk (J I L Gold) (01/04/90)
Will SOMEONE please tell me why in source code snippets the variables "foo","bar","foobar" and other variants invariably appear? J.Gold mapjilg@uk.ac.bath.gdr -- #------------------------------------------------------------------------------# # Paranoia is thinking that if something CAN'T go wrong it will still go wrong.# #------------------------------------------------------------------------------# # J.Gold | mapjilg@uk.ac.bath.gdr #
phorgan@cup.portal.com (Patrick John Horgan) (01/06/90)
Comes from fubar and acronym for F**KED UP BEYOND ALL REPAIR :) Patrick Horgan phorgan@cup.portal.com