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From: Sampo Niskanen <sampo AT lizard DOT compart DOT fi>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: what's "foo"?
Date: 7 Nov 1997 16:52:56 GMT
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> I've seen "foo" poping up in lot of djgpp and at&t unix documentations.

Another one is "bar". What are they, and why are they the standard name
for anything that hasn't got a given name?

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