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From: jyen@cs.utexas.edu (John Yen)
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Subject: Re: "foo"
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Date: 8 Apr 89 22:25:18 GMT
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In article <7999@boulder.Colorado.EDU>, fozzard@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Richard Fozzard) writes:
> In article <669@occrsh.ATT.COM> jdsb@occrsh.ATT.COM (John_Babcock) writes:
> >P.S. What is foo in foo.bat?
> 
> My guess is that "foo", a common scratch name for things (files, etc.), esp.
> in LISP, comes from the military expression "foobar" or "fubar" - Fucked Up
> Beyond All Repair.

  Richard!  And after all those other people tiptoed around the f-word.

  I'm just kidding.  J*O*K*E.

John Yen (jyen@cs.utexas.edu)