Subj : Re: Why always FOO and BAR
To   : comp.programming
From : Phlip
Date : Mon Jul 18 2005 06:58 am

pegasus wrote:

> Can any body tell me why in any example and ppl always refer foo and
> bar.......

There's a joke about that in the movie "Saving Private Ryan". Allied troops
picked up the Gernan term "furchtbar", meaning "awful".

    http://www.wolfstonelaw.com/bio_glw_priv-ryan.html

We use it when concocting programmatic examples as a placeholder for some
term that's meaningful to a real project.

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