Re: What is "foo"?

try the jargon file, it will tell you more about where foo came from. Gfunk - http://www.gfunk007.com/ I sense much beer in you. Beer leads to intoxication, intoxication to hangovers, and hangovers to... suffering. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rouvas Stathis" <rouvas@di.uoa.gr> To: "Soeren Staun-Pedersen" <staun@itcampus.dk> Cc: "SED" <sed@sed.is>; <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 9:41 AM Subject: Re: [PHP] What is "foo"? > And don't forget "goo". "foo" and "goo" go together:-) > -Stathis. > > Soeren Staun-Pedersen wrote: > > > > > Probably some of you are laughing while reading this :) But I have seen the > > > word "foo" used so many time (in programming) from different resources for > > > different reasons. Has it any meaning? (e.g. in PHP) > > > > It's just one of those words which stuck around. People like Leslie > > Lamport (LaTeX) and other computer scientists have kept it alive for at > > least a century now. > > > > Most people believe it originates from "foobar" or "fubar" which is > > actually an acronym for "Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition". :-) > > > > Regards, > > > > Soeren Staun-Pedersen - staun@netwarriors.org > > ------ > > "The internet is full, beat it" > > - Me. > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >