Smokey Stover, the 1935 "Where there's foo, there's fire" guy, was a TV cartoon in the 1970s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smokey_Stover#Animation Influenced by german furchtbar/foobar/fubar, MIT used fu() and bar() in the late '30s.
ksec 2 hours ago [-]
A lot of programming languages uses "Foo bar" during introduction without actually explaining why "Foo" and why "bar". Before the age of Google and Internet it was perhaps one of the most common question from speakers of non-English language.
thenoblesunfish 1 hours ago [-]
This location in Switzerland reminded me of some placeholder Python code.
my advice to junior programmers after i see them agonising over a name - "just call it x or foo for now, you are going to change it later anyway"
johnthescott 3 hours ago [-]
f*kt up beyond all recognition. semper fidelis
i first heard "foo bar" from eric allman at berkeley office of britton-lee, mid 1980s. i vaguely recall eric wrote a column about history of "foo bar".
IFC_LLC 1 hours ago [-]
I don’t understand how this article is not at the top of all times
alhazrod 3 hours ago [-]
Echoes of ARPANET.
taybin 3 hours ago [-]
No mention of “baz”
stephenlf 3 hours ago [-]
Part 2, 3rd definition of “foo”mentions baz
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo_Pass
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasyntactic_variable#Italian
my advice to junior programmers after i see them agonising over a name - "just call it x or foo for now, you are going to change it later anyway"
i first heard "foo bar" from eric allman at berkeley office of britton-lee, mid 1980s. i vaguely recall eric wrote a column about history of "foo bar".