Re: Re: Why?

On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, Michael Kimsal wrote: > Alberto Wagner wrote: > > Why everyone uses $foo or $foobar as examples? > > > > > > > > Why not? They are relatively benign words that are simply to > type and aren't terribly language centric. > > $moo and $moocow would work just as well, or $asdf or $qwerty > or others. > > As far as I know, they have no specific connotation, > but they've been used as placement holder names since > at least the early 80's when I started programming. Yes, the manual for Microsoft's M80 8080 macro assembler was the first time I came across foo and bar. This was dated 1979. Andy