Re: Trouble with dock preferences of System Events
Re: Trouble with dock preferences of System Events
- Subject: Re: Trouble with dock preferences of System Events
- From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:54:02 -0700
On Oct 29, 2009, at 12:45 PM, Stockly, Ed wrote: Plus, “foobar” is also a homophone for the military slang “FUBAR” or Fouled-Up Beyond All Recognition, and that is quite probably the origin of using the placeholder term in programming and debugging. (Although in the military they often use a different word than “fouled”)
I think that "foo" came about independently of "fubar" and some wag tacked on the rest as an homage, so to speak, to fubar.
-- Michelle
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