Actually, "foo" is unrelated to "fubar". Foo was the licence plate on Smokey Stover's two wheeled car in the comic strips, dating back to the 1920's or 1930's. "Fubar" and "foobar" came into use later, as far as I can tell, but it's hard to trace things like that.
-- Robert P. Nix Mayo Foundation .~. RO-OE-5-55 200 First Street SW /V\ 507-284-0844 Rochester, MN 55905 /( )\ ----- ^^-^^ "In theory, theory and practice are the same, but in practice, theory and practice are different." On 7/2/09 8:20 AM, "Michael MacIsaac" <mike...@us.ibm.com> wrote: > Rob, > >> Maybe you could get a position at the ITSO as an editor and flag >> the phrase "kill a daemon" > > I recently got a variable named "foo" edited out by an ITSO editor. > Because everyone knows that foo is a variant of fubar which is an acronym > with a *bad word* in it - "foo" might offend a reader. The compromise was > to name the variable "goo". > > The next step may be to disallow all variables starting with "f", and who > knows, maybe "s" too, for good measure :)) > > "Mike MacIsaac" <mike...@us.ibm.com> (845) 433-7061 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
