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Re: Trouble with dock preferences of System Events
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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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