Foobar
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Foobar is:
- The association of two metasyntactic variables: foo and bar. These variables are often used in computer programming examples.
- It is also a phonetic spelling of the army acronym FUBAR.
- It could also be a shortening of the German word furchtbar which means terrible or awful.
- foobar2000 is a free media player for Windows. It has a minimal style GUI focusing its features on the player itself.
- FooBar Search Alerts (http://www.ypjain.com/notify/) is a search alert notification service that lets you monitor a particular webpage for keywords
External links
- The Jargon File entry on foobar (http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/F/foobar.html)
- RFC article on origin and usage of foobar (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3092.html)