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Silly word you have to use in a UI

Gary Wheeler22-Jan-20 7:06

22-Jan-20 7:06

'Festoon'. It's a real thing for me. It cools paper coming out of a printing press (which includes dryers to dry ink, which also heat the paper) by running it through a set of rollers that run the paper up and down through a 6-8 foot space, something like this:

 ___     ___
/   \   /   \        ^
|   |   |   |   |    |
|   |   |   |   |    |
|   |   |   |   |    6-8 feet
|   |   |   |   |    |
|   |   |   |   |    |
|   |   |   |   |    V
    \___/   \___/

There will a set of 10 or more rollers at the top and at the bottom.

For some infantile reason this word just sounds silly to me.

What silly words do you folks have to use in your industry?

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Re: Silly word you have to use in a UI

honey the codewitch22-Jan-20 7:09

honey the codewitch

22-Jan-20 7:09

just as a general programming term, "foobar"

which i think probably means something, but also doesn't.

lorum foobar ipsum baz

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Re: Silly word you have to use in a UI

Gary Wheeler22-Jan-20 7:12

22-Jan-20 7:12

FUBAR (disambiguation) - Wikipedia[^]

The alternative spelling "foobar" I believe got its start in The C Programming Language by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie. They used the names foo and bar a lot in their examples.

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Re: Silly word you have to use in a UI

honey the codewitch22-Jan-20 7:15

honey the codewitch

22-Jan-20 7:15

Gary Wheeler wrote:
They used the names foo and bar a lot in their examples.

As do I. I wasn't sure where it started. I picked it up along the way.

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Re: Silly word you have to use in a UI

Gary Wheeler22-Jan-20 7:17

22-Jan-20 7:17

The "K&R C" is such a seminal text for all of the so-called semicolon languages, its memes have spread far and wide.

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Re: Silly word you have to use in a UI

SeattleC++23-Jan-20 5:17

23-Jan-20 5:17

No, foo and bar, and blah, zoo, and a bunch of other silly short words come from the Lisp 1.5 Programmer's Manual, copyright 1962.

God I'm getting old.

Re: Silly word you have to use in a UI

Gary Wheeler23-Jan-20 5:27

23-Jan-20 5:27

So that's where K&R got them.

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Re: Silly word you have to use in a UI

Jane's Diary23-Jan-20 8:08

23-Jan-20 8:08

I kind of want to buy it, just for posterity's sake.

Re: Silly word you have to use in a UI

Richard Deeming22-Jan-20 7:16

Richard Deeming

22-Jan-20 7:16

Not to be confused with FUBAR. Smile | :)

Smile | :)

(And definitely not to be sung to the tune of a certain "Electric Six" song[^]. "I wanna take you to a foo bar!")

"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer

Only silly until you know the meaning...

bVagadishnu22-Jan-20 7:42

22-Jan-20 7:42

Or the definition I learned back when:
FUBAR[^]

But I never wave bye bye

Re: Silly word you have to use in a UI

ernieg5422-Jan-20 22:08

22-Jan-20 22:08

An etymology was published in IETF RFC 3092 which although it had a publish date of 20010401 is still a fun read...
RFC 3092: Etymology of 'Foo' - The RFC Archive[^]

Re: Silly word you have to use in a UI

honey the codewitch23-Jan-20 0:27

honey the codewitch

23-Jan-20 0:27

haha neat, thanks

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Re: Silly word you have to use in a UI

kalberts23-Jan-20 1:00

23-Jan-20 1:00

One of the more serious April 1st RFCs.

OK, there are other serious ones, too, but usually in a more indirect way. You first make a great laugh, then start thinking "But really, there is something to it ...". I love both variants.

Re: Silly word you have to use in a UI

obermd23-Jan-20 3:03

23-Jan-20 3:03

Quote:
just as a general programming term, "foobar"

which i think probably means something, but also doesn't.

"foobar" is the sanitized version of "FUBAR", which means "Fouled Up Beyond All Repair". Change the first word to get the original meaning.

Re: Silly word you have to use in a UI

CoolTeddyBear23-Jan-20 3:29

23-Jan-20 3:29

I believe the R stands for recognition... F'd Up Beyond All Recognition

Live long and prosper

Re: Silly word you have to use in a UI

honey the codewitch23-Jan-20 4:17

honey the codewitch

23-Jan-20 4:17

I mean yeah, that's what i figured. I grew up in a military family so i know what FUBAR is. What I mean by probably means something but also doesn't, is when K+R was using it, it was just filler text, despite the meaning of FUBAR

(I also like SNAFU)

Edit: Why the hell did i write Guy Ritchie. I need more coffee

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Re: Silly word you have to use in a UI

CoolTeddyBear23-Jan-20 5:20

23-Jan-20 5:20

More coffee …. now that I can agree with Smile | :)

Smile | :)

My comment was not for your posting, it was meant for obermd

Guy Ritchie LOL

Live long and prosper

Re: Silly word you have to use in a UI

Maximilien22-Jan-20 7:18

22-Jan-20 7:18

We work with entities.

I'd rather be phishing!

Re: Silly word you have to use in a UI

Gary Wheeler22-Jan-20 7:20

22-Jan-20 7:20

Any of them named Aunty[^] ? Laugh | :laugh:

Laugh | :laugh:

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Re: Silly word you have to use in a UI

Maximilien22-Jan-20 7:59

22-Jan-20 7:59

Really!!! That is funny.

I'll pass it along the team.

I'd rather be phishing!

Re: Silly word you have to use in a UI

Mark_Wallace22-Jan-20 7:20

22-Jan-20 7:20

All words, in all languages, are silly. They're just noises. It's no wonder cats think we're idiots.

But we probably all have our favourites -- off-hand, "blazer" (the jacket) comes to mind.

In a UI, I don't use words that aren't in the parlance of the users, and I've never worked on programs for users who use weird terms (unlike those in the rag trade, or printing, brewing, etc.)

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

Re: Silly word you have to use in a UI

Gary Wheeler22-Jan-20 7:22

22-Jan-20 7:22

My industry has been around a long time (Gutenberg of the Bible fame was a founder), so we've got a lot of funky vocabulary.

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Re: Silly word you have to use in a UI

Mark_Wallace22-Jan-20 8:25

22-Jan-20 8:25

Now you're making me jealous.

I want to work where they use silly words, too!

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

Re: Silly word you have to use in a UI

Gary Wheeler22-Jan-20 8:48

22-Jan-20 8:48

Might I suggest management? They incentivize the go forward time to market the heck out of new words...

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Re: Silly word you have to use in a UI

RickZeeland22-Jan-20 7:21

22-Jan-20 7:21

One of my colleagues wrote a video analytics testing application and aptly named it: analtestapp
$Shucks | :-\$

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