From: "Ken Garlington" <Ken.Garlington@computer.org>
Subject: Re: F9X twister & ADA (was: n-dim'l vectors)
Date: 2000/04/16
Date: 2000-04-16T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <JcjK4.25752$hh2.739342@news.flash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8cqle7$p36$1@nnrp1.deja.com
Of course, FUBAR was used during World War II, as anyone who has seen
"Saving Private Ryan" can attest.
The Jargon File notes that "Fubar" and "Foobar" mean two different things,
with both being a variation of "foo". See
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/foo.html
"Robert Dewar" <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> wrote in message
news:8cqle7$p36$1@nnrp1.deja.com...
> In article <38F0D0B0.A5F9425@att.net>,
> Dick Hendrickson <dick.hendrickson@att.net> wrote:
>
> > I thought Fubar was a C term ;-)
>
>
> No, like bug it is MUCH MUCH older than people think, I know
> it was used (usually spelled Foobar) in the Algol-60 world,
> anyone know anything definitive on first use here?
>
> P.S. bug was first used by Edison, the answer to the
> million dollar question was an example of the show substituting
> urban legend for fact (the moth was indeed found, but did NOT
> give rise to the use of the word bug :-)
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-04-16 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <8cctts$ujr$1@nnrp1.deja.com>
[not found] ` <38EA0440.1ECBC158@ncep.noaa.gov>
2000-04-06 0:00 ` F9X twister & ADA (was: n-dim'l vectors) bv
2000-04-06 0:00 ` Richard Maine
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-04-08 0:00 ` Dick Hendrickson
2000-04-08 0:00 ` Richard Maine
2000-04-09 0:00 ` Gary Scott
2000-04-09 0:00 ` Richard Maine
2000-04-09 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
2000-04-09 0:00 ` Dick Hendrickson
2000-04-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-09 0:00 ` Gordon Sande
2000-04-09 0:00 ` James Giles
2000-04-10 0:00 ` tmoran
2000-04-15 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
2000-04-17 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
2000-04-16 0:00 ` Ken Garlington [this message]
2000-04-12 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
2000-04-10 0:00 ` bv
2000-04-10 0:00 ` James Van Buskirk
2000-04-11 0:00 ` James Giles
2000-04-11 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
2000-04-11 0:00 ` James Giles
2000-04-11 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-04-11 0:00 ` James Giles
2000-04-11 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-04-12 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-04-12 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
2000-04-12 0:00 ` James Giles
2000-04-12 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
2000-04-12 0:00 ` James Giles
2000-04-12 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
2000-04-12 0:00 ` James Giles
2000-04-13 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
2000-04-13 0:00 ` Debugging (was: F9X twister & ADA) James Giles
2000-04-13 0:00 ` F9X twister & ADA (was: n-dim'l vectors) James Giles
2000-04-14 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
2000-04-12 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-04-12 0:00 ` James Giles
2000-04-12 0:00 ` James Giles
2000-04-11 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
2000-04-11 0:00 ` James Giles
2000-04-12 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-04-14 0:00 ` bv
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Erik Edelmann
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Erik Edelmann
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Paul van Delst
2000-04-10 0:00 ` bv
replies disabled
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox