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From: | Ian Chapman <ichapman AT nortelnetworks DOT com> |
Newsgroups: | comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
Subject: | Re: what's foo? |
Date: | Wed, 10 Jan 2001 11:35:42 -0500 |
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Hi, this offers quite a different explanation. http://www.wolfstonelaw.com/bio_glw_priv-ryan.html Regards Ian. Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, bedbed wrote: > > > I see the phase 'foo' so often in C related topics. What does it mean > > or originate from? > > It comes from "fubar", which see. (That's why you will also see `foo' > and `bar' mentioned in the same text.)
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