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From: arnold@gatech.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.general
Subject: foo and bar (curiosity will yet kill the cat)
Message-ID: <425@gatech.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 30-Aug-83 14:01:43 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 30 14:01:43 1983
Date-Received: Wed, 31-Aug-83 23:02:50 EDT
Organization: Georgia Tech, School of ICS
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	I have noticed that when computer people need an identifier
to act as a place holder, they often use some combination of 'foo' and 'bar',
and occasionally 'baz.'  I myself have done it.
	What I am curious about is, where did this come from?  Who first
did it?  This is not of earth-shaking importance, just some (very) idle
curiosity.
-- 
Arnold Robbins
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