Foo is the first metasyntactic variable commonly used by hackers and programmers. It is sometimes combined with bar to make foobar. This suggests that foo may have originated with the World War II slang term FUBAR. The jargon file has an extensive etymology of the word foo at [1].
Foo is the first metasyntactic variable commonly used by hackers and programmers. It is sometimes combined with bar to make foobar. This suggests that foo may have originated with the World War II slang term FUBAR. The jargon file has an extensive etymology of the word foo at [1].