[Techtalk] Learning Perl!!!!

[Katie Bechtold]

On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 08:49:02AM +0100, James wrote:
> I don't know how [FUBAR] evolved into the "foo" and "bar" we tend to use 
> today (or the third member of the set, "baz"), though...

Take another look at the Jargon File:
	http://www.tuxedo.org/jargon/html/entry/foo.html

foo
<snip>
Early versions of the Jargon File interpreted this change as a
post-war bowdlerization, but it it now seems more likely that FUBAR
was itself a derivative of `foo' perhaps influenced by German
`furchtbar' (terrible) - `foobar' may actually have been the
original form.
</snip>

The entry goes on to give more etymology, but I won't copy it all
here.

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Katie Bechtold
http://katie-and-rob.org/