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Robin Becker robin at jessikat.fsnet.co.uk
Fri Aug 4 03:21:37 EDT 2000 
In article <3989DC05.20C9 at seebelow.org>, Grant Griffin <g2 at seebelow.org>
writes
...
>At the risk of being serious for a moment, I really can endorse that
>"foo" thing.  Years ago, a boss of mine used to give a "fubar feather"
>(note original navy spelling) to people who had fouled up.  So I spent
>the first few years of my programming career trying to find mistakes in
>all those "foo/bar" examples--all to no avail.  The spam/eggs examples
>we use in Python are a whole lot better.
>
>(though-not-to-be-confused-with-unwanted-e-mails-and-cholesterol
>   -<wink>)-ly y'rs,
...
funny how snafu examples are rare although they appear all to often in
production code.
-- 
Robin Becker
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