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| The word '''foobar''' might originate in the ] American Army slang word |
The word '''foobar''' might originate in the ] American Army slang word ]. Later, fubar might have changed to foobar, perhaps by merging it with the word '']'', which is a general term of disgust and might originate in the chinese word "fu" (or "foo" 福), meaning happiness. (This is all folk etymology, nobody knows if fubar and foobar are actually related. The Jargon File, for example, gives no origina for foobar.) | ||
| ⚫ | Today, foobar is also used as a dummy test word in many descriptions and tutorials of ]s, where it serves as an example text, e.g., for the division of a string into ''foo'' and ''bar'' (see ]). Foobar is also used in another form, '']'', which supposedly resembles a ]ese word. Except from the military and computer sciences, the word ''fubar'' was never very common until used in the movie ] (1998). | ||
| Later, fubar might have changed to foobar, perhaps by merging it with the word '']'', which is a general term of disgust and might originate in the chinese word "fu" (or "foo" 福), meaning happiness. (This is all folk etymology, nobody knows if fubar and foobar are actually related. The Jargon File, for example, gives no origina for foobar.) | |||
| ⚫ | Today, foobar is also used as a dummy test word in many descriptions and tutorials of ]s, where it serves as an example text, e.g., for the division of a string into ''foo'' and ''bar'' (see ]). Foobar is also used in another form, '']'', which supposedly resembles a ]ese word. Except from the military and computer sciences, the word ''fubar'' was never very common until used in the movie ] (1998). | ||
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The word foobar might originate in the World War II American Army slang word FUBAR. Later, fubar might have changed to foobar, perhaps by merging it with the word foo, which is a general term of disgust and might originate in the chinese word "fu" (or "foo" 福), meaning happiness. (This is all folk etymology, nobody knows if fubar and foobar are actually related. The Jargon File, for example, gives no origina for foobar.)
Today, foobar is also used as a dummy test word in many descriptions and tutorials of programming languages, where it serves as an example text, e.g., for the division of a string into foo and bar (see metasyntactic variable). Foobar is also used in another form, fugazi, which supposedly resembles a Vietnamese word. Except from the military and computer sciences, the word fubar was never very common until used in the movie Saving Private Ryan (1998).