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FUBAR I think it comes from german where "Furchtbar" means "horrible", if I remember American soldiers adapted this term during world war 2 (but I might be wrong). But it also has the acronym meaning mentioned above.
I don't know how FOOBAR and FUBAR are related though -
@Mosesrocks the german pronounciation is the same.
U is pronounced like the English oo -
@just8littleBit probably someone was debugging by putting logs all oder the place..
Then a German said: why does it say fubar everywhere? And the English guy was like: I don’t know but I’ll also put foo bar in my logs now. -
irene33955yI use a lot of metasyncratic variable names.
My list from most to least used: foo bar baz qux fibble bibble wibble wobble fred thud -
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