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FooBar.

Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 6:07 pm
by JellyFish
What's the root of the slang term?

Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 6:51 pm
by RobertGonzalez
I voted. But seriously, why even have this poll?

Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 7:09 pm
by vigge89
from fubar.

Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 8:16 pm
by JellyFish
Everah wrote:I voted. But seriously, why even have this poll?
There are days when it's fun to act like Harry or Lloyd. :D

Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 12:10 pm
by Bill H
While it has distant origins in fubar, C programmers took to using "foo" as one rather meaningless variable and "bar" as another.

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for (foo = 0; foo < bar; foo++)

Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 1:05 pm
by superdezign
It actually means "foo" and "bar." Foo is a term commonly used for describing foo in relation to bar, which is an alias of bar in relation to foo when foo is an accessed member of bar while referencing foo as a property of the bar property of foo. It's very complicated stuff.

Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 1:32 pm
by Chris Corbyn
superdezign wrote:It actually means "foo" and "bar." Foo is a term commonly used for describing foo in relation to bar, which is an alias of bar in relation to foo when foo is an accessed member of bar while referencing foo as a property of the bar property of foo. It's very complicated stuff.
:lol:

Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 3:01 pm
by JellyFish
superdezign wrote:It actually means "foo" and "bar." Foo is a term commonly used for describing foo in relation to bar, which is an alias of bar in relation to foo when foo is an accessed member of bar while referencing foo as a property of the bar property of foo. It's very complicated stuff.
:dubious:

Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 8:37 am
by The Phoenix
Hackers do not generally use this to mean FUBAR in either the slang or jargon sense.
http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/F/foobar.html / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foobar

Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 9:05 am
by superdezign
I read both of those back before I knew that foo and bar were meaningless. I was so confused. I though FooBar was some type of CMS like Drupal. :?