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shad0w
08-22-2001, 06:10 PM
Where did "foo" orginate? Does anyone have Docs on this?
Whipping Boy
08-22-2001, 06:36 PM
Take a look at this year's April Fools' Day RFC
http://rfc-editor.org

I can't remember the exact #, but I do remember that it was written by ESR and someone else.
Rob 'Feztaa' Park
08-22-2001, 09:04 PM
http://tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/foo.html
http://tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/foobar.html
http://tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/bar.html
http://tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/baz.html

Cheers! :)
Rob 'Feztaa' Park
08-22-2001, 09:06 PM
Oh, and http://tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/metasyntactic-variable.html :)
Whipping Boy
08-22-2001, 10:39 PM
Yes, but the RFC is more in-depth.
Red Lotus
08-22-2001, 11:49 PM
I don't where one of those pages gets their WWII defintions, but FUBAR stands for "Foxtrot Uniform Bravo Alpha Romeo" :)
Concrete Geist
08-23-2001, 12:47 AM
what is foo?
dvdnut
08-23-2001, 04:03 AM
fubar doesnt stand for that
its

f**ked up beyond all recognition

ttfn
posterboy
08-23-2001, 05:14 AM
DVDnut is right. The first time I can recall seeing the example variables "foo" and "bar" used in coding instructions was in the manuals that were shipped with MASM 1.0 the orginal M$ Macro Assembler. A brown loose leaf notebook, with rings, so you could update the pages. I think it had also appeared in some Fortran books, as example variables, but I was not a Fortran coder, so was not exposed to it. Man, here I am, at age 65, and all that seems like it was, maybe, 10 years ago? No, Ray, lots longer than that. :)
X_console
08-23-2001, 12:09 PM
Moving to Off Topic.