foo 音标拼音: [f'u]
/foo / A sample name for absolutely anything ,
especially programs and files (especially {scratch files }).
First on the standard list of {metasyntactic variables } used
in {syntax } examples . See also {bar }, {baz }, {qux }, {quux },
corge }, {grault }, {garply }, {waldo }, {fred }, {plugh },
xyzzy }, {thud }.
The etymology of "foo " is obscure . When used in connection
with "bar " it is generally traced to the WWII -era Army slang
acronym {FUBAR }, later bowdlerised to {foobar }.
However , the use of the word "foo " itself has more complicated
antecedents , including a long history in comic strips and
cartoons .
FOO " often appeared in the "Smokey Stover " comic strip by
Bill Holman . This surrealist strip about a fireman appeared
in various American comics including "Everybody 's " between
about 1930 and 1952 . FOO was often included on licence plates
of cars and in nonsense sayings in the background of some
frames such as "He who foos last foos best " or "Many smoke but
foo men chew ".
Allegedly , "FOO " and "BAR " also occurred in Walt Kelly 's
Pogo " strips . In the 1938 cartoon "The Daffy Doc ", a very
early version of Daffy Duck holds up a sign saying "SILENCE IS
FOO !". Oddly , this seems to refer to some approving or
positive affirmative use of foo . It has been suggested that
this might be related to the Chinese word "fu " (sometimes
transliterated "foo "), which can mean "happiness " when spoken
with the proper tone (the lion -dog guardians flanking the
steps of many Chinese restaurants are properly called "fu
dogs ").
Earlier versions of this entry suggested the possibility that
hacker usage actually sprang from "FOO , Lampoons and Parody ",
the title of a comic book first issued in September 1958 , a
joint project of Charles and Robert Crumb . Though Robert
Crumb (then in his mid -teens ) later became one of the most
important and influential artists in underground comics , this
venture was hardly a success ; indeed , the brothers later
burned most of the existing copies in disgust . The title FOO
was featured in large letters on the front cover . However ,
very few copies of this comic actually circulated , and
students of Crumb 's "oeuvre " have established that this title
was a reference to the earlier Smokey Stover comics .
An old -time member reports that in the 1959 "Dictionary of the
TMRC Language ", compiled at {TMRC } there was an entry that
went something like this :
FOO : The first syllable of the sacred chant phrase "FOO MANE
PADME HUM ." Our first obligation is to keep the foo counters
turning .
For more about the legendary foo counters , see {TMRC }. Almost
the entire staff of what became the {MIT } {AI LAB } was
involved with TMRC , and probably picked the word up there .
Another correspondant cites the nautical construction
foo -foo " (or "poo -poo "), used to refer to something
effeminate or some technical thing whose name has been
forgotten , e .g . "foo -foo box ", "foo -foo valve ". This was
common on ships by the early nineteenth century .
Very probably , hackish "foo " had no single origin and derives
through all these channels from Yiddish "feh " and /or English
fooey ".
Jargon File }]
1998 -04 -16 )
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