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Foo
The terms foobar (), foo, bar, baz, qux, quux, and others are used as metasyntactic variables and placeholder names in computer programming or computer-related documentation. - Etymology of "Foo" They have been used to name entities such as Variable (computer science), variables, Function (computer science), functions, and command (computing), commands whose exact identity is unimportant and serve only to demonstrate a concept. The style guide for Google developer documentation recommends against using them as example project names because they are unclear and can cause confusion. History and etymology It is possible that ''foobar'' is a playful allusion to the World War II-era military slang List of military slang terms#FUBAR, FUBAR (''fucked up beyond all recognition)''. According to a Request for Comments, RFC from the Internet Engineering Task Force, the word FOO originated as a nonsense word with its earliest documented use in the 1930s comic ''Smokey Stover'' by Bill Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foo Camp
Foo Camp is an annual hacker event hosted by publisher O'Reilly Media. Event O'Reilly describes it as "the wiki of conferences", where the program is developed by the attendees at the event, using big whiteboard schedule templates that can be rewritten or overwritten by attendees to optimize the schedule; this type of event is sometimes called an unconference. The event started as a joke between Tim O'Reilly and Sara Winge, O'Reilly's VP of Corporate Communications. Sara had always wanted to run a ''foo bar'', an open bar for ''Friends of O'Reilly'', at one of O'Reilly's conferences. That joke morphed into a brainstorm after the dot com bust left O'Reilly with much unused office space in its new buildings, creating the opportunity for Foo Camp. The first Foo Camp was held in October 2003, and had approximately 200 attendees. There was eventually a Foo Bar at the camp. Tim O'Reilly describes the goal of his company as "changing the world by spreading the knowledge of innovator ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
