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> Right. The nonsense variable names of yore were "foo", "bar", and
> "baz". People used them in pseudo-code all the time. "spam" was
> similar, except that it seems to be used (even in the mid-80s!)
> more as a subroutine name.
Are "foo" and "bar" descended from "fubar"? I had always thought so, but I've had several geeks whose overinflated egos dwarfed even mine tell me I was wrong.
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