Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?

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From: William G. Royds
Date: Sat, 24 May 1997 00:00

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Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
> 
> Nathan Hand <Nathan.Hand@anu.edu.au> writes:
> 
> > Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
> > > Greg Hayes <greg@hayford.demon.co.uk> writes:
> > > > Where does 'foo' come from
> > > File: jargon.info, Node: foo, Next: foobar, Prev: fontology, Up: = F =
> > > :foo: /foo/  1. /interj./ Term of disgust.  2. Used very
> > > [3 pages of fooey deleted]
> > Sheesh. What have you got on "bar"?
> 
> File: jargon.info, Node: bar, Next: bare metal, Prev: banner, Up: = B =
> 
> :bar: /bar/ /n./  1. The second {metasyntactic variable},
>    after {foo} and before {baz}.  "Suppose we have two
>    functions: FOO and BAR.  FOO calls BAR...." 2. Often
>    appended to {foo} to produce {foobar}.
> 
> --
  Actually the original term was from the Second World war and was a
description of what happened to a plane hit by ack-ack fire (anti
aircraft guns). THe term was fubar (F*cked Up Beyond All Recognition)
with the first part Fu (F*cked Up) becoming foo by early lisp hackers.

-- 
Bill Royds
Hunt-Club/OT8(Mooney's Bay)/R16

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From: az915@freenet.carleton.ca (William G. Royds)
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 1997/05/24
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