Does a Control Exist?

[J. Landman Gay]

On 11/24/13 2:07 PM, dunbarx at aol.com wrote:
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> Pretty sure "foo" was penned by Goodman. And "author" was used by him as well,
 > derived, I guess, from userLevel 4 in HC.

<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4868904/what-is-the-origin-of-foo-and-bar>

Okay, so I looked it up. Says 1938 at MIT (they did "bar" too.) As for 
"author", no idea, except maybe that we write code the way some people 
write books, even though we strive for brevity more than some of them.

My gut wants to attribute it to HC though.

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