Perhaps you are already using some of this lingo and don't even realize the military origins. You may also like: Do you know your military traditions? One of the more familiar military terms is "AWOL," an acronym for "absent without leave. An azimuth is an angular measurement in a spherical coordination system. While usually used as a technical term in land navigation, this phrase can generally refer to taking the time to stop and ensure the current task whatever it may be is being done right.
A fun-sounding rhyme, "beat feet" means to move from your current location quickly, as in to beat your feet on the pavement. An expression you may already be using, legend has it that this saying was derived from having service members bite a bullet during battlefield surgery to distract them from pain.
The aphorism means to accept the inevitable or impending suffering and move past it quickly and with fortitude. Commonly used in the Marines, "boot" is a somewhat derogatory term for a novice service member, often one who is fresh out of boot camp. Another one on the list you may already be using, this phrase is understood to have military origins. The literal meaning is to sit down and eat. The term often used as a verb; to "Dear John someone" was popularized by the film starring Amanda Seyfried and Channing Tatum.
The technical origin is from the Middle English word "dudde" which refers to worn out clothing and was later expanded to weapons that were worn out or dysfunctional. Now dud is synonymous with junk, and can be applied to anything or anyone that does not work as it was supposed to. Some say the term was applied to weapons from the sound a bomb makes when it does not go off a "thud" or a "dud". Slang for the ribbons and medals on a Marine uniform, due to the rich array of color contrasting with the plain blue uniform.
A phrase often used to indicate some sort of physically taxing punishment will ensue. The "real estate" is likely a patch of grass or an area of cement where you will be expected to lower your body down on.
This term refers to repetitive, boring situations. The concept was popularized by a Bill Murray film of the same name in Meaning to have someones back, the phrase applies to physically watching the 6 o'clock of someone on a mission or in battle. Using clock position, the 6 o'clock would indicate behind or below that person. Beds in boot camp and on ships are notoriously uncomfortable, with rack summoning the vision of an uncomfortable piece of metal.
Some say it stands for "seek cover," "keep quiet," "accept no responsibility," "take no action," and "evade. Another fun one to adopt, a "soup sandwich" is exactly what it sounds like—chaos or a mess. What is the history of the use of "foo" and "bar" in source code examples?
Ask Question. Asked 13 years, 1 month ago. Active 8 years, 2 months ago. Viewed k times. Active Oldest Votes. Mark, The German Wikipedia de. Jim Ferrans: While FUBAR probably influenced the use of "bar" with "foo", there is strong evidence that "foo" by itself well predates WWII, with references at least back to the s, as your comment indicates.
It might be good to mention that in the body of your answer. Yes, foo definitely predates WWII. In fact, I've found an MIT newspaper piece from that tells us how common it was: "As an expletive, of course, "foo! Add a comment. I think it's the phonetic pronouncation of fubar. Repair or Recognition ;P — Anders. It's "recognition". See quote from Rick Atkinson's Day of Battle here: stackoverflow. Show 3 more comments. Here are a few common signatures: foo, bar, baz, quux, quuux, quuuux These tend to be Britishisms.
That was one pretty good. It's elaborate. Thanks dude. OMG, my QL account is qux. Colin - I altered the link to a different site, since the existing one was offline. See my answer for more info: programmers. Wikipedia gives this definition of Metasyntactic Variable : In computer science, programmers use metasyntactic variables to describe a placeholder name or an alias term commonly used to denote the subject matter under discussion or an arbitrary member of a class of things under discussion.
The article also gives common examples of such variables in different programming languages : C In the following example of the C programming language the function name foo and the variable name bar are both metasyntactic variables. Here is wikipedia's answer: The terms foobar, foo, bar, and baz, are common placeholder names also referred to as metasyntactic variables used in computer programming or computer-related documentation.
Daniel A. Jonathan Fingland: No it doesn't. Daniel, Excellent reference. Added — Jonathan Fingland. The Tech newspaper , a year earlier, the Letter to the Editor, September : By the time the train has reached the station the neophytes are so filled with the stories of the glory of Phi Omicron Omicron, usually referred to as Foo, that they are easy prey.
Hopefully yours, Indignant Mother of Five. And The Tech in December : General trend of thought might be best interpreted from the remarks made at the end of the ballots. I want to be an instant success and snow customers. Send me a degree in Foo Counters Foo Jung But let's remember this question is about code examples, so let's find "foo", "bar" and "foobar" published in code.
Some more recallations. Walter Mitty recalled on this site in I second the jargon file regarding Foo Bar. Everett recalls in When I joined DEC in , foobar was already being commonly used as a throw-away file name. Smith in Dick Gruen had a device in his dorm room, the usual assemblage of B-battery, resistors, capacitors, and NE-2 neon tubes, which he called a "foo counter.
Wexelblat in The earliest PDP-1 Assembler used two characters for symbols 18 bit machine programmers always left a few words as patch space to fix problems. Yes, but why Foo and Bar specifically? Why not Lorum and Ipsum? TofuBeer Yep, they're "metasyntactic variables". It's a nice idea, but I couldn't find any reference to an "inverted foo signal". More here: programmers. Term of disgust. First on the standard list of metasyntactic variables used in syntax examples.
See also bar, baz, qux, quux, garply, waldo, fred, plugh, xyzzy, thud. Walter Mitty. PS I've included your quote in my big answer: programmers. To me, the common use of these words inappropriately is what's so f'd up beyond recognition.
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