Re: [LI] My first question

["Suresh Ramasubramanian" <Suresh@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12 Dec 99, at 8:09, thus spake Linux India Digest:

> question may seem rather dumb, but 'kindly adjust'. Doubt of the day:
>  What th !@#$%^&* are 'foo' and 'bar' !

You almost answered it yourself <g>  FOOBAR comes from US 
army (and later hacker) slang fubar (f***ed up beyond all 
recognition) - where f***ed can mean "fouled up" if you're in polite 
company :-)

these are used to say "any generic function" - that's part of it.  For 
more - dig deeper into c and linux 

--s


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