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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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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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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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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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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.
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So that's where K&R got them.
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I kind of want to buy it, just for posterity's sake.
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Not to be confused with FUBAR. 
(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
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Or the definition I learned back when:
FUBAR[^]
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haha neat, thanks
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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.
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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.
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I believe the R stands for recognition... F'd Up Beyond All Recognition
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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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More coffee …. now that I can agree with
My comment was not for your posting, it was meant for obermd
Guy Ritchie LOL
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We work with entities.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Any of them named Aunty[^] ? 
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Really!!! That is funny.
I'll pass it along the team.
I'd rather be phishing!
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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.)
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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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Now you're making me jealous.
I want to work where they use silly words, too!
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Might I suggest management? They incentivize the go forward time to market the heck out of new words...
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One of my colleagues wrote a video analytics testing application and aptly named it: analtestapp
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Gary Wheeler wrote: What silly words do you folks have to use in your industry?
Deadlines, budgets, user experience, etc.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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