Foo & Bar?
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Madainn mhath na h-uile, I was just wondering where FOO and BAR come from. I've grown up with them (programming-wise) and would just like to know how they came about. PS - any devs out there speak Gaelic? Cheers, Stravaiger Le gach deagh dhurachd
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Madainn mhath na h-uile, I was just wondering where FOO and BAR come from. I've grown up with them (programming-wise) and would just like to know how they came about. PS - any devs out there speak Gaelic? Cheers, Stravaiger Le gach deagh dhurachd
I always guessed that it was a misspelling of the acronym F.U.B.A.R. :-D Jon Sagara "When I was fourteen, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded how much he had learned in the past seven years." -- Mark Twain
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I always guessed that it was a misspelling of the acronym F.U.B.A.R. :-D Jon Sagara "When I was fourteen, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded how much he had learned in the past seven years." -- Mark Twain
F.U.B.A.R == F*cked up beyond all recognition ? :) Tomasz Sowinski -- http://www.shooltz.com.pl
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Madainn mhath na h-uile, I was just wondering where FOO and BAR come from. I've grown up with them (programming-wise) and would just like to know how they came about. PS - any devs out there speak Gaelic? Cheers, Stravaiger Le gach deagh dhurachd
Some clever idiot always has to look these things up, and here I am (the idiot part is right at least): http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/foobar.html (also has a link to the word 'foo' there too..) No, I don't speak Gaelic, but i would love to learn.. :) ::Clynt
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Madainn mhath na h-uile, I was just wondering where FOO and BAR come from. I've grown up with them (programming-wise) and would just like to know how they came about. PS - any devs out there speak Gaelic? Cheers, Stravaiger Le gach deagh dhurachd
However, coined in a less vulgar era, "FUBAR" almost certainly originally meant "Fouled Up Beyond all Repair". Of course, I suppose our generation cannot resist the urge to bring everyone else down to our potty-mouthed level of discourse.
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However, coined in a less vulgar era, "FUBAR" almost certainly originally meant "Fouled Up Beyond all Repair". Of course, I suppose our generation cannot resist the urge to bring everyone else down to our potty-mouthed level of discourse.
The source was WWII. Trust me, when you are being shot at, you flip flop between being a saint and a sinner. It was the more gutter term. But I am sure the cleaned up version was used in more polite circles. http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=fubar Tim Smith Descartes Systems Sciences, Inc.
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The source was WWII. Trust me, when you are being shot at, you flip flop between being a saint and a sinner. It was the more gutter term. But I am sure the cleaned up version was used in more polite circles. http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=fubar Tim Smith Descartes Systems Sciences, Inc.
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The source was WWII. Trust me, when you are being shot at, you flip flop between being a saint and a sinner. It was the more gutter term. But I am sure the cleaned up version was used in more polite circles. http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=fubar Tim Smith Descartes Systems Sciences, Inc.
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The source was WWII. Trust me, when you are being shot at, you flip flop between being a saint and a sinner. It was the more gutter term. But I am sure the cleaned up version was used in more polite circles. http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=fubar Tim Smith Descartes Systems Sciences, Inc.
Sorry you guys, but you have been "Hollywoodized". I have known many WWII era vets, who were otherwise very fouled mouthed, who simply did not use the word "fuck" in the context it is used today. That is, to mean something is not functioning properly. To them the word meant exclusively : To have sexual intercourse. My own father, a WWII sailor could cuss a blue streak but the "f word" was not in his vocabulary, as with MOST of his generation.
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Madainn mhath na h-uile, I was just wondering where FOO and BAR come from. I've grown up with them (programming-wise) and would just like to know how they came about. PS - any devs out there speak Gaelic? Cheers, Stravaiger Le gach deagh dhurachd
As Clynt has mentioned, foo and bar have nothing to do with FUBAR. Trivia: In the mid 80's, I worked at DEC, where users were identified by their node and username, using the format ::. My node name was "FOO" and my username was "BAR" (my initials backwards), causing my id to be FOO::BAR. I used to receive innumerable emails and network connections from people testing their code. Most of the time, the emails would say "This should fail...". I fondly remember replying to the sender saying, "It succeeded!". :-) More trivia: My friend Larry who sat in a nearby cube had a machine whose node name was NODE and a username USERNAME. Emails sent to NODE::USERNAME (usually by admin staff learning how to use the MAIL utility) were cheerfully answered by him. Even more trivia: Foo and Bar are near and dear to my heart. If you don't believe me, check out my product FooBar at http://www.matrixsoftware.com. :-) Cheers, /ravi "There is always one more bug..." http://www.ravib.com ravib@ravib.com