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Where do the names Foo and Bar come from that I seem to see used as examples in various programming textbooks (and the name of this forum).
Foobar is a universal variable understood to represent whatever is being discussed...
Foo, bar, and the compound foobar were commonly used at MIT, Stanford and the Helsinki University of Technology, Finland. Other generic variables are used other places, but only these three are considered universal.
