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taybin
24 days ago
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RFC 3092 – Etymology of “Foo” (2001)
No mention of “baz”
hk__2
24 days ago
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It’s literally in the first sentence of the first definition:
> bar /bar/ n. [JARGON] The second metasyntactic variable, after foo and before baz.
rendaw
23 days ago
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In the etymology section, I presume. And I can't find it either, if it is there.
stephenlf
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Part 2, 3rd definition of “foo”mentions baz
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