Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 02:00:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 02:00:48 -0400 Received: from pD9E23356.dip.t-dialin.net ([217.226.51.86]:1672 "EHLO hawkeye.luckynet.adm") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 02:00:46 -0400 Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 00:03:47 -0600 (MDT) From: Thunder from the hill X-X-Sender: thunder@hawkeye.luckynet.adm To: Daniel Mose cc: Linux-Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Alright, I give up. What does the "i" in "inode" stand for? In-Reply-To: <20020725022454.A8711@unicyclist.com> Message-ID: X-Location: Dorndorf; Germany MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1825 Lines: 46 Hi, On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Daniel Mose wrote: > Other words in this ML (and in too many other places =( ) that > make my own brain go rivetted and short circuit are the "foo" > and/or "bar", not to mention the "foobar" place holder. > > I realize that most folks In LKML use "foo", "bar" and it's dad, > "foobar" with outmost joy and that there is complete and utter > understanding of what the "foos" and "bars" actually stand for > in your contemporary discussion partners reasoning scheeme. > > Or is it? Well, there's indeed a meaning behind it, apart from "fucked over and over beyond all repair." Firstly, there was foo, way back when in the 1930s when I was a bit younger. Its meaning was not always technical, I think it came from some kind of comic strip, but I'm not sure. It became a buzzword soon, it was used all over. Then came up the technicians. Remembering the german word "furchtbar" (meaning "terrible", actually) they introduced the term fubar, fucked up beyond all repair. It later transformed to the well-known foobar. Actually, think of foobar as a foo with a bar over it - foo inverted. Later it was used in its current meaning by e.g. dec in their decsys manuals, go read it if you like, I don't have them handy. Regards, Thunder -- (Use http://www.ebb.org/ungeek if you can't decode) ------BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK------ Version: 3.12 GCS/E/G/S/AT d- s++:-- a? C++$ ULAVHI++++$ P++$ L++++(+++++)$ E W-$ N--- o? K? w-- O- M V$ PS+ PE- Y- PGP+ t+ 5+ X+ R- !tv b++ DI? !D G e++++ h* r--- y- ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/