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foobar · **Joined:** Mon Jan 11, 2010 11:56 am **Posts:** 36

Obviously it indirectly relates to the old WWII FUBAR (fucked up beyond all recognition/repair) but it actually relates to computer science (which I teach at NKU) as FOO and BAR were the variable names used by Ritchie and Thompson in the majority of their examples. When I first signed up for NTN back in the early 90's I wanted FUBAR but it was rejected so I took FOOBAR instead.

Pink Pig · **Posted:** Tue Jan 12, 2010 4:22 pm

Welcome back, O Crotchety One. You get full credit for knowing the origin of your own handle. I'll post my own anon.

foobar · **Joined:** Mon Jan 11, 2010 11:56 am **Posts:** 36

Your mom...... just sayin....

ANON · **Joined:** Sun Jan 10, 2010 8:59 pm **Posts:** 2232

Pink Pig wrote:

I'll post my own anon.

Nope, that's mine!

Hope you are feeling better now.

cavman · **Posted:** Sat Jan 16, 2010 5:03 pm

foobar wrote:

Obviously it indirectly relates to the old WWII FUBAR (fucked up beyond all recognition/repair) but it actually relates to computer science (which I teach at NKU) as FOO and BAR were the variable names used by Ritchie and Thompson in the majority of their examples. When I first signed up for NTN back in the early 90's I wanted FUBAR but it was rejected so I took FOOBAR instead.

those two wrote, designed and implemented so much foo and bar made a lot of sense ... and shows their sense of humor as well I think - since like you and me, many of the early developers had a ton of 'fubars' which made life so good for us...

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