Foo?
 

Where did "foo-bar" stem from for examples with linux applications? For example:
Where did this foo.bar originate?

Just curious ;)

Cool

Question of endless debate.

There's this
http://www.hack.gr/jargon/html/F/foo.html
and you can click around from there. :)

well there's plenty of comments on foo on there, as for the bar though, i'#d strongly think that that is just a derivation of logic notation, where a line (bar) over a variable, a, negates it. so in plain english you would have foo and not foo. obviosuly it's use doesn't make sense in terms of strict logic you can see the obvious relationship.

personally i really hate foo.... what's wrong with sensible variable names like...

arse
bum
hello
monkey

works for me.....