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As an aside, I believe "foobar" is a sanitization of "fubar", which is an unofficial military acronym for "f*ucked up beyond all recognition". If you're interes
by inetsee 6y ago
As an aside, I believe "foobar" is a sanitization of "fubar", which is an unofficial military acronym for "f*ucked up beyond all recognition". If you're interested in the history of fubar, a search of "history fubar" provides more history about "fubar", "snafu", and other colorful unofficial military acronyms.
- teddyh 6y agoThe reality behind “foo” and “foobar” is somewhat more complex: http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/F/foo.html http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/F/foo.html