RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Origin of SPAM (Yes! I am a google GOD)

["Spurling, Shannon" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I don't believe so. More likely foo came from the origin of the foo in
foo fighters. I am not sure about the bar part. If the foo was from
fubar, it would be fu, not foo. Maybe foo came first and bar
followed.... Just guessing.


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-----Original Message-----
From: Ross, Matthew [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 10:45 AM
To: MLUG Off-Topic Discussion
Subject: RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Origin of SPAM (Yes! I am a google GOD)

> 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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