[Tutor] what is foo bar?

[Deirdre Saoirse]

On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Tesla Coil wrote:

> Goes back to the early days of the Tech Model Railroad Club
> at MIT (http://web.mit.edu/tmrc/www/).  "Foo" seems to have
> come into use first, possibly picked up from frequent appearance
> in the Smokey Stover comic strip.  The acronym FUBAR made
> "bar" a natural compliment.   Other longtime MIT favorites see
> heavy use in Guy L. Steele's _Common Lisp: The Language_.

Fubar was in common use in the military (US anyway) during WW2, so I doubt
it originated at MIT.

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