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Re: OOPS and FOO ?

• Posted by Derek Parnell <dparnell at BIGPOND.NET.AU> Aug 31, 2000
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OOP = Object Oriented Programming


FOO is the first syllable of FOOBAR. This word has been used for years in
programming examples to represent a couple of variables. As in ...

integer FOO, BAR

The origin of FOOBAR (or FUBAR) has had many theories. The one below is my
favorite.

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Mr. Wolfstone is a student of language and offers the following explanation
of the battlefield slang, fubar, from the popular film, Saving Private Ryan.

Fubar is slang (mangled German) for the word "Furchtbar" which means
terrible or horrible  --  Think of it as the opposite of "Wunderbar."
Furcht means fear, literally translated, and the "bar" is added to make it
an adverb or noun, as the case may be.  Notice that "Wunderbar" translates
literally into wonderful.  By contrast, you should treat Furchtbar as an
idiom and translate it to mean terrible or horrible.

By the time our troops landed at Omaha Beach, D-Day (June 6, 1944), the term
fubar had undergone a pejoration.  The soldiers in Saving Private Ryan were
probably contemplating the pejorative, anglicized acronym "fubar" which they
would translate as "Fu***d  Up  Beyond  All  Recognition."

A more recent example of battlefield slang (although not based on mangling
the enemy's language) is, for instance, the word "Snafu."  Snafu is an
acronym for the battlefield expression "Situation  Normal  All  Fu***d  Up."
Snafu was widely used in 'Nam and perhaps in earlier wars.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Gene Mannel" <genem2 at GJ.NET>
To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 10:56 PM
Subject: OOPS and FOO ?


> Hi Folks
>
>   Im learning UE pretty good I think but
>
>  OOPs must be a general term for what ?
>    Help  me out, at first I figured  object oreinted but
>   EU as far as I know isn't object oreinted.
>
>  FOO must be a genereal term for ?
>    I havent tried to guess that one yet.
>
>  Then I pondered and decided that maybe they are terms
> which carryed over from C or C++.
>
>
>  Those are probably stupid questions but an inquiring
> mind wants to know.
>
>   Thanks
>     Gene