Yup, beyond all doubt. But "foo" was still the license plate on Smokey Stover's car and has nothing to do with "fubar" or "foobar".
It may have been Pascal, but I had a textbook whose favorite variable names were foo, bar and foobar. -- 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 11:14 AM, "Ed Long" <rdhm...@prodigy.net> wrote: > FOOBAR dates from WW2 where it was more commonly spelled FUBAR. > The polite definition is fouled up beyond all recognition. > Guess what the real definition is! > > Edward Long > > > --- On Thu, 7/2/09, RPN01 <nix.rob...@mayo.edu> wrote: > >> From: RPN01 <nix.rob...@mayo.edu> >> Subject: Re: OT (was Re: RHEL 5.4 Beta is out in the wild) >> To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU >> Date: Thursday, July 2, 2009, 11:45 AM >> 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 >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
