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FlashBuster

Apr 28 2003, 13:59

Because foo and bar are commonly used terms, i just looked up in the internet for it's "history" and meaning.

no. 1
no. 2

so, does it mean, that foobar2000 is "fucked up beyond all repair 2000" ?

p.s.: can't wait for the next version B)

AstralStorm

Apr 28 2003, 14:13

From no.1:

QUOTE

:foobar: n. Another common {metasyntactic variable}; see {foo}.
Hackers do *not* generally use this to mean {FUBAR} in
either the slang or jargon sense.

Well, hacker in this context means programmer.

Curi0us_George

Apr 28 2003, 16:51

FUBAR = Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition

Hero.Hua

Apr 28 2003, 19:53

QUOTE(FlashBuster @ Apr 28 2003 - 11:59 AM)

Because foo and bar are commonly used terms, i just looked up in the internet for it's "history" and meaning.

no. 1
no. 2

so, does it mean, that foobar2000 is "fucked up beyond all repair 2000" ?

p.s.: can't wait for the next version B)

nod!

sign.

/\/ephaestous

Apr 28 2003, 20:17

I though it was parody of the Foo and Bar variables used in every programming course.

ogg

Apr 28 2003, 21:25

QUOTE(/\/ephaestous @ Apr 28 2003 - 06:17 PM)

I though it was parody of the Foo and Bar variables used in every programming course.

yep, same here...

foobar != fubar

FlashBuster

Apr 28 2003, 22:40

QUOTE

:bar: /bar/ n. 1. The second {metasyntactic variable}, after {foo}
   and before {baz}. "Suppose we have two functions: FOO and BAR.
   FOO calls BAR...." 2. Often appended to {foo} to produce
   {foobar}.

I just asked myself, how does the programer come to "foo" and "bar" which is obviously the word "fubar", which memans "fucked up beyond all repair" (coming from the 2nd WW) or it could be the english writing for an misspelled german word "furchtbar" (terrible).

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