From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,fc050a66c3b5d87d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1094ba,86e8c626be2471ae X-Google-Attributes: gid1094ba,public From: "Robert I. Eachus" Subject: Re: F9X twister & ADA (was: n-dim'l vectors) Date: 2000/04/12 Message-ID: <38F4CD7C.5820E0AA@earthlink.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 610331838 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <8cctts$ujr$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <38EA0440.1ECBC158@ncep.noaa.gov> <38ED4ECA.ADB698C9@sdynamix.com> <38EF6B75.DD12DD25@att.net> <38EFC508.34D2CD9A@acenet.com.au> <38F0D0B0.A5F9425@att.net> X-Accept-Language: en,pdf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net 955567347 63.24.57.175 (Wed, 12 Apr 2000 12:22:27 PDT) Organization: The MITRE Corporation MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 12:22:27 PDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-04-12T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Dick Hendrickson wrote: > I thought Fubar was a C term ;-) Actually, fubar was orriginally a military term, an acronym for fouled up beyond all recognition--i.e. what normally happens to a battle plan upon contact with the enemy. I know it goes back to WWII, I don't know if it goes back further. Incidently, the current equivalent is a "goat rope."