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The term foobar is a common placeholder name also referred to as
metasyntactic variable used in computer programming or computer related
documentation.
The word "foobar" may be derived from the WW II era Army slang acronym
FUBAR (`Fucked Up Beyond All Repair'), later modified to foobar and carried
back by returning GIs to morph into other uses. In technology, the word was
probably originally propagated through DEC system manuals by Digital
Equipment Corporation or DEC in 1960s and early 1970s. Another possibility
is that foobar evolved from electronics, as an inverted foo signal. This is
because if a digital signal is active low (so a negative or zero-voltage
condition represents a "1") then a horizontal bar is commonly placed over
the signal label. The Jargon File makes a case that foo possibly predates
fubar.[LINK: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/F/foobar.html] The Jargon
File.
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