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A side comment. Paul Fussell mentioned the origin of the GI slang “FUBAR.” One thing I disliked early in my career were the many tutorials and demos that named
by rawgabbit 4y ago
A side comment. Paul Fussell mentioned the origin of the GI slang “FUBAR.”
One thing I disliked early in my career were the many tutorials and demos that named the first object Foo and the next object Bar. I doubt any of these tutorial authors served in WW2 or in any war. It seemed to me similar to suburban raised children mimicking Gangster Rap. It feels fake and phony to me. War is horrific and evil. Writing a tutorial is the complete opposite. I guess I am the dude who yells at kids to get off my lawn.
- aidenn0 4y agoUsage of foo/bar/baz as metasyntactic variables dates to the 60s. It appears that Foo predates bar, and was possibly more related to the usage of it as a nonsense word in pre-ww2 comics. It seems unlikely that "bar" was added after foo for any reason other than FUBAR though.