Subject: Re: [xsl] FOO vs FO From: David_Marston@xxxxxxxxx Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 11:33:38 -0400 |
>> Does anyone know why FOO was chosen to mean anything? >FOO is from foobar, a military term >cheers, jim fuller <tirade> No, it's not! If it were, why isn't it spelled "fu"? "FOO" is from the Smokey Stover comic strip, where it was used as an arbitrary word, just as we use it in Computer Science! The Jargon Dictionary attempts to trace earlier uses, but Smokey Stover still rules as the place where the modern usage was introduced. FUBAR came later, and from that we derived "bar" as a companion to foo. In other words, "foo" and "bar" have separate derivations. Let's kill the urban legend that "FUBAR begat FOO" because that story is, um, fouled up. </tirade> .................David Marston XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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