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Yes that’s the original spelling & meaning. But using the spellings foobar, foo, bar, and sometimes baz, have been used for decades in programming as examples,
by dahart 5mo ago
Yes that’s the original spelling & meaning. But using the spellings foobar, foo, bar, and sometimes baz, have been used for decades in programming as examples, temporary names, stand-ins etc. I just assumed that spelling it foo was meant to distance it from the curse word slightly while simultaneously making the pronunciation more clear (i.e. foo not fuh); foo just makes a good nonsense word.
- breatheoften 5mo agoI only just realized the z in foobaz stood for zork
- wang_li 5mo agoThey are called metasyntactic variables and there’s a handful of them for English, but also standard ones in other language. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasyntactic_variable https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasyntactic_variable
- m463 5mo ago> foo not fuh not to be confused with: fuh not pho