Subject: Re: [xsl] FOO vs FO From: Joerg Pietschmann <joerg.pietschmann@xxxxxx> Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2001 11:35:11 +0200 |
Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > My own folk etymology cortical implant tells me that "Foobar" is an > adaptation of "FUBAR", a military acronym (originally ca. WWII) that stands > for "f****d up beyond all recognition". As in "Situation normal -- foobar". What i read from various sources was "... beyond (all|any) repair". As for the alternatives proposed: XXX: Wouldn't get past some filters, you know. And, after all, virtually every source and many documentations i've seen was cluttered with this anyway. ABC: I believe American Broadcasting Corp. would take legal action if this would be abused too much. And certainly nobody would like to sprinkle lots of (R) or (TM) into their files unnecessarily. Other generic strings often seen in XSLT files (to get on charter) and program sources in general (to drift off again): FIXME three dollar signs in a row (alias to circumvent the list's spam filter) xyzzy Furthermore, "ACME" seems to be a generic placeholder for enterprise names, though this is more often used in documentation than source code. The Jargon File mentions quz, qaz and qoz as placeholders (IIRC) but i've never seen them used extensively. Some GNU sources use "mumble" if foo, bar and baz has already been used up. > I think we are asymptotically approaching some kind of "knowledge" on this > important question. Just added my 20 milliEuro. J.Pietschmann XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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