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From: lmb@ghoti.uucp (Larry Breed)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: "foo" origin
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Date: 1 Dec 89 01:03:33 GMT
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"foo" and "bar" were in use around Harvard and MIT in 1960.  John McCarthy's
Lisp project moved to Stanford in 1961 or 1962 and began to disseminate
"foo" usage on the west coast.  Perhaps some good Cambridge graybeard
can tell us the history before 1960.



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