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		pilsetnieks on Nov 11, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Foobar foo, bar, and baz are commonly used placeholders for function and variable names in programming examples.

wuliwong on Nov 11, 2014 | [–]

At least according to Wikipedia, this connection of foo bar and FUBAR is plausible but not proven. You forgot the 4th basic one, "qux" btw.

kushagra_ on Nov 11, 2014 | [–]

but foobar or FUBAR abbreviated form of fu*d up beyond all recognition this could be related to hangar one as some one pointed out

edit: here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8590018

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