bad factor

[Jan Schenkel]

--- Dave LeYanna <dleyanna at rtl.org> wrote:
> At 09:20 PM 1/31/03 +0100, you wrote:
> >Hi Dave,
> >
> >>Now, if he would have said "foobar"
> >
> >another programmers term whose meaning i have been
> looking
> >for for years. Can you enlighten me?
> 
> Simply a universal variable used to represent a
> generic contextual item 
> while discussing or explaining something. "Foo" and
> "Bar" can also be used 
> when a couple of things need to be referenced during
> the explanation. 
> Probably started at MIT or somewhere. Not very often
> found in Windows 
> programming lingo. (they are to young to have been
> exposed to such an 
> arcane but useful expression <g>).
> 
> It is much better to use to avoid confusion: For
> example which is clearer: 
> "set var to 3" or "set foobar to 3" var could be
> some kind of keyword while 
> foobar is known to be replace with a "real" object.
> 
> djl
> 
> clip...
> 

A quick trip to Google uncovered this website:
  http://foobar.fi/faq.shtml

Have fun,

Jan Schenkel.

=====
"As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time."  (La Rochefoucauld)

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