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Re:A Google Reader Replacement written in Haskell and Ur by shurane on Saturday June 29, 2013 @03:38AM (#5961716)
It's from the sequence of ["foo","bar","baz","qux", "quux", ...]. More info at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasyntactic_variable#English

Doesn't sound like a great name, but whatever. It's a placeholder at least.

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Re:A Google Reader Replacement written in Haskell and Ur by tome on Saturday June 29, 2013 @07:28AM (#5962079)
I had no idea "qux" came before "quux". How embarrassing. It's like counting "one, two, three, five".
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Re:A Google Reader Replacement written in Haskell and Ur by nakedrobot2 on Saturday June 29, 2013 @03:47AM (#5961726)
Oh! Thanks for explaining. I had no idea.
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