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Posted 03 November 2006 - 09:21 AM

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Where did Foo come from and why is it used to for variables? Its an odd word to be widely used in programming text-books.

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Posted 04 November 2006 - 12:33 PM

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Hahah. This is funny.

Foo is commonly used, alongside Bar.

FooBar aka F.U.B.A.R. aka "F*cked Up Beyond All Recognition"

geek humor

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Posted 04 November 2006 - 01:16 PM

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That is how I understand it as well. Not sure how it made its way into programming text books though.

lol, too funny.

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Posted 05 November 2006 - 07:59 PM

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Its like "Lorem ipsum" in HTML templates :)

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Posted 06 November 2006 - 05:29 AM

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icepack said:

Hahah. This is funny.

Foo is commonly used, alongside Bar.

FooBar aka F.U.B.A.R. aka "F*cked Up Beyond All Recognition"

geek humor

lol, that is funny! :D

TkTech said:

Its like "Lorem ipsum" in HTML templates :)

What does this mean?

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Posted 06 November 2006 - 01:15 PM

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Its just content filler, for when your working on a web design and want to see what it looks like with all the content in :) Its tradition lol.
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