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发帖数: 6 | 1 【 以下文字转载自 SanFrancisco 讨论区 】
发信人: mark0 (吾道一以灌之), 信区: SanFrancisco
标 题: shocking! The origin of foo()
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Tue Jun 5 19:47:45 2007)
rfc3092: Etymology of "Foo"
When used in connection with `bar' it is generally traced to the WW II era
Army slang acronym FUBAR (`Fucked Up Beyond All Repair'), later modified to
foobar. | S*******s
发帖数: 13043 | 2 Foo is a metasyntactic variable used heavily in computer science to
represent concepts abstractly and can be used to represent any part of a
complicated system or idea including the data, variables, functions, and
commands just to name a few. Foo is commonly used with the metasyntactic
variables bar and foobar. The word foo itself has no meaning and is merely a
commonly used logical representation that is used much like the letters 'x'
and 'y' in algebra.
Foo has entered the English language as | S*******s
发帖数: 13043 | 3 http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/F/foo.html
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【在 S*******s 的大作中提到】
: Foo is a metasyntactic variable used heavily in computer science to
: represent concepts abstractly and can be used to represent any part of a
: complicated system or idea including the data, variables, functions, and
: commands just to name a few. Foo is commonly used with the metasyntactic
: variables bar and foobar. The word foo itself has no meaning and is merely a
: commonly used logical representation that is used much like the letters 'x'
: and 'y' in algebra.
: Foo has entered the English language as
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