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Article #40551Re: "foo" and other expressions
From: Anthony Dunyeh Chen
Date: Sun, 09 Apr 1989 05:06
Date: Sun, 09 Apr 1989 05:06
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In article <7999@boulder.Colorado.EDU> fozzard@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Richard Fozzard) writes: >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. So long as we're on this subject, the most used abbreviation/acronym is none other than: OK. I believe it originated from Andrew Jackson when someone asked him to sign a document, so he wrote "OK", meaning "Ol Korrect". (sorry if this is way beyond the normal comp.sys.mac topics...) Tony Chen adchen@phoenix.princeton.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!njin!princeton!phoenix!adchen From: adchen@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Anthony Dunyeh Chen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: "foo" and other expressions Message-ID: <7650@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> Date: 9 Apr 89 05:06:50 GMT References: <669@occrsh.ATT.COM> <7999@boulder.Colorado.EDU> Reply-To: adchen@phoenix.Princeton.EDU Distribution: usa Organization: Princeton University, NJ Lines: 18