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: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:06:38 -0400
- Thread-topic: Trouble with dock preferences of System Events
Title: Re: Trouble with dock preferences of System Events
On 10/29/09 3:54 PM, "Michelle Steiner" <email@hidden> wrote:
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.
Actually, both spellings are used outside of computing, and both predate computing by quite a bit.
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