FUBAR Etymology [nac]

Jörgen Karlsson jorgen.m.karlsson at home.se
Mon Dec 3 00:15:10 EST 2001


> also seen in the manuals of the digital tops-10 operating system by moi in
> the early 80's - used as a default directory name etc.  took me quite a
> while to figure out what it meant....

I guess that it is FOOBAR you are thinking of.

I can't remember if it was [], {} or both that was called FOOBAR in
programming circles. When p2p audio transmission of code (phone call) was
done it could sound like this: -void main void FOO puts Quattro rules! BAR
When typed in it looks like this:

void main(void)
{
puts("Quattro list rules!");
}


Jörgen Karlsson
Gothenburg, Sweden.






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