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O, call back yesterday. Richard II, act 3, sc. 2.
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I always felt it dated back to Oppenheim and the first 'bomb' f?
up beyond all repair - it was a reference to a storage hanger that
they had
Francesco
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> Le Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 04:5
Le Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 04:58:17PM -0500, Ryan Davis/Pamela Karr a dit le suivant:
} Where did 'foo' and 'bar' come from?
I was always under the impression that they came from the old
military(?) acronym FUBAR, which stood for
"f*cked up beyond all recognition", at least according to good
ol'
"F* Up Beyond All Recognition" (which is what happens to the best of
all of us at times ...) ... an "old" military term ...
I had that happen once to a program I wrote ... a CGI program ... a PERL CGI
program ... in fact ... several programs ... but I now use "strict"
-Original Me
