Date: Tue, 23 Dec 97 22:10:22 PST
From: Noam Rotem <nrotem AT johnbryce DOT co DOT il>
Subject: The meaning of FOO and BAR
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Hi,

Sorry to bother you with my irrelevant questions, but I have a semantic one 
to pose this time:

I see every here and there examples of code, using the prefixes FOO and BAR.

I always consider it merely identifiers, ignoring their semantic meaning, 
but I've got curious lately.
Are these abbreviations or something? What are the originals of the 
prefixes?

I can't sleep at night being aware of my ignorance. Save me please.

TIA

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