[Techtalk] Learning Perl!!!!

[Jenn Vesperman]

On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 05:15, Michelle Murrain wrote:

> >2) What is the big fuss about 'foobar'? what is it exactly in Linux? 
> >Does it have any significance (like /dev/null)? I seen it being also 
> >used in Learning Perl book.
> 
> it's just an example - it means nothing. I think the use of 'foo' and 
> 'bar' started in C?

It's also spelt fuba, and military and ex-military people will recognise
it. It stands for Fouled Up Bloody Awful, though the original people
used even more colourful language.

'foo' 'bar' 'baz' and 'quux' are traditional 'metasyntactic variables',
as in, they're used for examples and only for examples and have no
actual meaning.




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