God, I take it you people didn't watch tv in the 90's? foobar - the descriptive pronunciation of fubar - an ancronym for Fucked up beyond all recognition. See Tango and Cash and assorted bad late 80's and early 90's tv. Tango and Cash was probably the most famous usage of it in main stream media.
</nerdboy word origin snobbing> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Piotr Pluciennik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 11:59 PM Subject: Re: [PHP-WIN] Who is foo & what is bar? > Hmm.. :-)) > > but I'm afraid it's not only IT technology question > :-) If you've remember in "Saving Private Ryan" movie > this question apperars there a lot of times... "What > is foobar?" > So, what the f**k is foobar? :-) > > --- Uttam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In many code examples in PHP documention (& others > > also), I have seen > > authors referring to variables 'foo' & 'bar', but I > > have yet not discovered > > the origin of these names. I am sure there must be > > dozens of others who > > have the curiosity to find how the use of these > > names started. > > > > Can anyone quench the curiosities please? > > > > regards, > > > > > > -- > > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. > http://mailplus.yahoo.com > > -- > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >
