From: "Kurt Wall" <krwall AT earthlink DOT net>
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Subject: OFF TOPIC: Re: foo
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 20:38:41 -0700
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John M. Aldrich wrote in message <34C062AD DOT 52B9 AT cs DOT com>...
>Michael Zanyat wrote:
>>
>> I am new to DJGPP (and even to C) and in some documentations I read foo.
>>
>> What the hell is foo. I find it in ASM docs as well as in a message
>> about the
>> copyright for comercial use...
>> Maybe foo is just a 'place keeper' in english...?
>
>Exactly correct.  "Foo," along with "bar" and sometimes "baz," is a
>placeholder used in examples.  When I say, "type 'gcc -o foo.exe
>foo.c'," I mean that you should substitute "foo" in the example with
>whatever your real-world program is named.
>
Poser: Does there exist a universal, as in non-English-specific,
placeholder?  I have used foo, bar and baz all my (programming) life and it
never occurred to me, being the American English centric chump I am, that
someone non-American would have a problem understanding these conventions.
I intuited immediately in my first Fortran class in (gasp) 1979 (ahh, the
good ole days of punchcards and greenbar...) what foo, bar and baz meant.

Kurt