At 09:23 AM 9/25/02 -0400, Paul Kraus wrote: >What does foo stand for. It is used everywhere. I understand its just a >placeholder for the file name or what ever is pertinent to the context >it is used but I would still like to know what it means.
These days it doesn't "stand for" anything. It's just one of those placeholder words, like "widget" or "gismo", just as you note. Its history, though, has two pieces that I can think of. First, F00 is a hex number; in the real old (punch-card) days, I recall system operators talking about F00F errors, for example. The step from F00F to FOO is small. Second, you will often see Foo used in conjunction with Bar. Put them together and ... well, I trust you can figure that one out without my help. -- -------------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"-------- Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo Palo Alto, California, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
