Hi everyone. Here's a thougth that has troubled my mind for a while.
In all sample expressions in the php-manual and in other php-scripts on the web, and posts on this forum as well, uses foo and bar as standard for naming variables and functions. Why's is that?
I can see that fokes see this as a standard and acceptable way to name dummy variabels and functions and do so by imitate. But wheres the does the origin come from?
cheers!
moving to echo lounge.
Cgraz
As I could imagine. There is a story for everything.
Thank you kevinsequeira for the link!
Foo!
Originally posted by kevinsequeira
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=foo
I now know more about foo then I think I ever would've liked to know. 
But that's actually a really interesting read if you've got some spare time, thanks kevinsequeira.
Conversely, you could go straight to the Jargon File:
http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/
Or FOLDOC:
http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/index.html
though FOLDC does take a fair bit of info from the former.
Originally posted by clearbreach
I now know more about foo then I think I ever would've liked to know.
But not enough to answer?
WHERE ARE ALL THE $FOO FIGHTERS?"
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.............. "Foo!"
hmm.. interesting, to be honest i never knew that. Oh well... im over foo and bar
