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<jargon> Another common metasyntactic variable; see foo. Hackers do *not* generally use this to mean FUBAR in either the slang or jargon sense. According to a german correspondent, the term was coined during WW2 by allied troops who could not pronounce the german word "furchtbar" (horrible, terrible, awful). Interesting :-) Because whenever I write foobar, I don't mean "horrible", "terrible" nor "awful" :-) On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 18:13, jason corbett wrote: > > > > > jason corbett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As a newbie, I have seen the statement "foo (bar)" mentioned in books and and even > on this site. I haven't yet seen what this actually mean as I can assume that its > just for examples. If I am wrong please explain in detail what this is about. > > Thanks, > JC -- José Alves de Castro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://natura.di.uminho.pt/~jac
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