Etymology of “Foo”
March 27, 2007 8:00 am Did you know?, Tech and SecurityHere’s a link to RFC 3092 that explains the history of “foo”, “bar”, “baz”, etc.
For those outside the tech community:
RFC = Request For Comment
“foo”, “bar”, etc are used to quickly name things in a piece of software (usually when the name is not important, like when writing a quick piece of test code).
