TW5 What is the meaning of foo, bar, baz?

[Birthe C]

Hi

Would someone please explain to me the meaning of foo, bar, baz and all that jazz?
I have of course tried to google but the meaning seem to change. I searched this TiddlyWiki group and found that the use is increasing. Lots of messages containing those words, but I found no explanation.

Wikipedia starts telling the origin is fubar and the meaning, "fucked up beyond repair". Now that is how I feel reading it right now.

I do understand that programmers have to be able to communicate, that it might not be supposed to be understandable for users only.
I just so want to learn from the examples given.


Birthe

[Felix Küppers]

Hi Birthe,

it's just a convention to use these words as meaningless placeholders. This way people (mostly programmers) quickly understand that this is an example.

Regards
Felix

[Tobias Beer]

It's like lorem ipsum for developers.

Now, sprinky some demystify. :D

Best wishes, Tobias.

[Birthe C]

Thank you Felix and Tobias
I see it is what I thought it was.


Birthe

[RichShumaker]

FUBAR and FOO I do not think are related and I am commenting to add

F$%^ Up Beyond All Recognition(hence un-repairable) - So a TW after I have messed with it all day, #heheh.

Rich Shumaker