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From: Richard Fozzard
Date: Sat, 08 Apr 1989 06:36

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In article <669@occrsh.ATT.COM> jdsb@occrsh.ATT.COM (John_Babcock) writes:
>P.S. What is foo in foo.bat?

My guess is that "foo", a common scratch name for things (files, etc.), esp.
in LISP, comes from the military expression "foobar" or "fubar" - Fucked Up
Beyond All Repair.

Any other theories?



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Richard Fozzard
University of Colorado				"Serendipity empowers"
fozzard@boulder.colorado.edu

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