RE:foobar

2001-11-20 Thread Andrew Agno
Andrew Agno writes: > Richardson, Martin writes: > > Does anyone know where foobar originates from, and its meaning? > > Check the latest version of the Jargon Dictionary (for example at: > http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/index.html) Whoops. That should be the Jargon File. Andrew.

RE:foobar

2001-11-20 Thread Andrew Agno
Richardson, Martin writes: > Does anyone know where foobar originates from, and its meaning? Check the latest version of the Jargon Dictionary (for example at: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/index.html) foobar: [very common] Another widely used metasyntactic variable; see foo for etym