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Started by walkingcarcass January 18, 2003 11:56 AM

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walkingcarcass

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January 18, 2003 11:56 AM

i''m not a newie so i should probably know this but... what the hell is foo bar? ******** A Problem Worthy of Attack Proves It''s Worth by Fighting Back

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neurokaotix

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January 18, 2003 12:04 PM

The Foo is proportional to the Bar.

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felonius

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January 18, 2003 12:06 PM

An acronym for "f***ed up beyond all repair."

http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci748437,00.html

Jacob Marner, M.Sc.
Console Programmer, Deadline Games

Jacob Marner, M.Sc.Console Programmer, Deadline Games

NeverSayDie

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January 18, 2003 12:09 PM

Funny, there was a thread asking this same question bout a week ago. As felonius said, orignal acronym is FUBAR, WWII era US Army slang, AFAIK.

walkingcarcass

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January 18, 2003 12:10 PM

yeah i heard that in a film, but I often see "foo" or "foobar" as symbolic names in other people''s code. why?

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A Problem Worthy of Attack
Proves It''s Worth by Fighting Back

spraff.net: don't laugh, I'm still just starting...

henrym

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January 18, 2003 12:54 PM

quote:Original post by walkingcarcass
yeah i heard that in a film, but I often see "foo" or "foobar" as symbolic names in other people''s code. why?

Programmers use them when we ae feeling lazy and can''t be bothered making up proper names. :D

Also, we use them in testbeds and the sort.

Henrym
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IFooBar

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January 18, 2003 01:07 PM

I AM THE INTERFACE FOR FOOBAR!! ALL FOOBAR ACTIONS MUST GO THROUGH ME!!! OR IFooBar WILL HAVE TO IFooBar::KillAbuser( &dna ).

i have a lot of handy methods. When you loose a lot of money, u have been IFooBar''d. When you loose source files and have to redo them, you have been IFooBar''d.

You become FooBar''d whenyou least expect it really. so be careful...

:::Al:::
[Triple Buffer V2.0] - Resource leak imminent. Memory status: Fragile

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Fruny

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January 18, 2003 01:23 PM

"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." — Brian W. Kernighan

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