From: Aidan Skinner <aidan@skinner.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: F9X twister & ADA (was: n-dim'l vectors)
Date: 2000/04/15
Date: 2000-04-15T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m34s93s5fb.fsf@skinner.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8cqle7$p36$1@nnrp1.deja.com
Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> writes:
> 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?
Foldoc claims it was used in at the TMRC, which is where the MIT AI
Lab probably picked it up, possibly from a "Smokey Stover" comic by
Bill Holman.
Unfortunately I just lost an hour in there...
- Aidan
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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 [this message]
2000-04-17 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
2000-04-16 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
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 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-04-12 0:00 ` James Giles
2000-04-12 0:00 ` James Giles
2000-04-12 0:00 ` James Giles
2000-04-13 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
2000-04-13 0:00 ` James Giles
2000-04-14 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
2000-04-13 0:00 ` Debugging (was: F9X twister & ADA) James Giles
2000-04-11 0:00 ` F9X twister & ADA (was: n-dim'l vectors) 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 ` Paul van Delst
2000-04-10 0:00 ` bv
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Erik Edelmann
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Erik Edelmann
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