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I would imagine, if this came out today, it's something related to the military. foo.bar == FUBAR? Maybe?

• pilsetnieks 12y ago
  foo, bar, and baz are commonly used placeholders for function and variable names in programming examples.
  • kushagra_ 12y ago
    but foobar or FUBAR abbreviated form of fu*d up beyond all recognition this could be related to hangar one as some one pointed out edit: here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8590018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8590018
  • wuliwong 12y ago
    At least according to Wikipedia, this connection of foo bar and FUBAR is plausible but not proven. You forgot the 4th basic one, "qux" btw.
    • ninjaplease 12y ago
      ah hell, why not list them all: foo, bar, baz, qux, quux, corge, grault, garply, waldo, fred, plugh, xyzzy, thud