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WTF is foo bar's history?
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Ivan Jouikov
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Joined: Jul 22, 2003
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Hi!
Ima 1337 n00bsorz and I wanna know wtf is foo bar? I see it everywhere - web, books, even my dad says "well son, when you want to foo your bar..."
S0 whats the history behind that?
thx
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David O'Meara
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This is not a Servlet question.
I'll get it moved to the General Computing forum for you.
Dave
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Barry Gaunt
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Take a look here and here.
[ July 29, 2003: Message edited by: Barry Gaunt ]
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Tim Holloway
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We did a little discussion on this a while back at the JavaRanch, with much the same results. I had been rather surprised about the Smokey Stover connection myself. Back when I was a little type, I liked reading the Sunday Comics in the Daytona Beach Morning Journal when I went to stay with my grandfather, and Smokey Stover was one of my favorite strips. I was always particulary bemused by the "Notary Sojack" he liked to place in odd locations.
However, when you need a quick meaningless variable, "foo" is a lot easier to type than "notary".
Alas, unlike other many of the other old-time comics, I haven't been able to find major Smokey archives on the Internet.
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