Re: hello, anyone out there?!

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>BTW, does anybody know where "foobar" came from? It's always used in
>programming examples ("foo" and "bar"), and I hear it came from FUBAR,
>but I don't know how the U turned into OO. (I also heard the 'F' as


IMHO OO <-- Object Oriented. K&R used fubar, Strous.. (whatever is he's
name) used foobar.

RTA, DB

(Regards To All, Daniel Berstein)
daber at pair.com

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