"foo" origin

Jeff Wood jdw at hpfijdw.HP.COM
Sat Nov 18 09:25:42 AEST 1989


In my lengthy career in Computer Science at the University,
many professors used the acronym "foo".  None of which knew
its origins.  Examples of code were called "foo.c", functions
were called "int foo ()".  Do any of you gurus from way
back know what this stands for????

Jeff Wood.foo



More information about the Comp.unix.questions mailing list