[Techtalk] Learning Perl!!!!

James jas at spamcop.net
Thu Sep 12 08:49:02 EST 2002


On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, John White wrote:

> Actually, FUBAR goes back to at least World War 2, when it was coined as
> a superlative of SNAFU.

ISTR the "FUBAR" version stands for F... Up Beyond All Recognition?

I don't know how that evolved into the "foo" and "bar" we tend to use 
today (or the third member of the set, "baz"), though...


James.




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