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Foo Fighter WWII Germany
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] |
Smokey Stover
''Smokey Stover'' is an American comic strip written and drawn by cartoonist Bill Holman (cartoonist), Bill Holman from March 10, 1935, until he retired in 1972 and distributed through the ''Chicago Tribune''. It features the misadventures of the titular fireman. Background Holman was born in Crawfordsville, Indiana, and moved to Chicago, where he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts while working as an office boy in the ''Chicago Tribune'' art department. He relocated to New York City where he worked as a staff artist at the ''New York Herald Tribune'' and submitted freelance cartoons to magazines, including ''Collier's Weekly, Colliers'', ''The Saturday Evening Post'', ''Life (magazine), Life'', ''Judge (magazine), Judge'', and ''Everybody's Weekly''. He began ''Smokey Stover'' as a Sunday comic strip for the Tribune Media Services, Chicago Tribune Syndicate on March 10, 1935. The daily comic strip began on November 14, 1938. Overview Characters and story The madcap situat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
