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There is an entire paper looking at the history, meaning and cultural significance of the foo, bar, baz words: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13347-
by tpetricek 8mo ago
There is an entire paper looking at the history, meaning and cultural significance of the foo, bar, baz words: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13347-019-00387-2 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13347-019-00387-2
- ahazred8ta 8mo agoSmokey Stover, the 1935 "Where there's foo, there's fire" guy, was a TV cartoon in the 1970s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smokey_Stover#Animation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smokey_Stover#Animation Influenced by german furchtbar/foobar/fubar, MIT used fu() and bar() in the late '30s.
- readthenotes1 8mo agoThe paper goes deeper
- einpoklum 8mo agoPaywalled link? Come on, we're past that. Here's the article: https://sci-hub.st/10.1007/s13347-019-00387-2 https://sci-hub.st/10.1007/s13347-019-00387-2 Foo, Bar, Baz…: The Metasyntactic Variable and the Programming Language Hierarchy / by Brian Lennon
- ahazred8ta 8mo ago♫♫ "WHAT THIS COUNTRY NEEDS IS FOO" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2pljKyCgwc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2pljKyCgwc