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Re:What is the history of the use of "foo" and "bar" in sour... by reaperducer on Saturday October 05, 2024 @06:49PM (#41753480)
A few years later, perhaps with the welcome progress of more female faculty and students, textbooks changed the spelling, but not the pronunciation of the vulgar acronym 'fu' to 'foo'.

I was always told that fu became foo because it lined up nicely on screens and on paper, making the code easier to scan.

  foo = 1
  bar = 2
looks better than

  fu = 1
  bar = 2
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