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Re: Origin of 'foo', 'bar', et al?

by fenonn (Chaplain)
on Jun 18, 2003 at 17:42 UTC ( [id://266922]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Origin of 'foo', 'bar', et al?

foo[everthing2.com] is the first in the sequence of metasyntactic variables[everything2.com] that were popularlized by MIT hackers.

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