A new word?

[Towse]

The "foo" in code examples is a phonetic rendering of the FU in FUBAR
which is not the "fu" in code-fu.

On 8/15/06, Dave Wilton <dave at wilton.net> wrote:
> This one is additionally interesting because "foo" is commonly used in
> software code examples to stand for a username, password, file name, or
> other variable character string. When I first read Wilson's post, I thought
> it was an alternate spelling of this.
>
> --Dave Wilton
>   dave at wilton.net

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