OK, I can't hold it in any longer: I just gotta know!

[billyskank]

Poll question: OK, I can't hold it in any longer: I just gotta know!

Foo or bar?

:silly:

[billyskank]

1. Bar in the lead!

Unexpected, yes.

[billyskank]

2. But foo making up ground and taking the lead!

On reflectuion, the attraction for bar is probably the alcohol connection. :)

[parkening]

3. I believe the proper acronym is

FUBAR. Which stands for something I won't repeat in mixed company. The recent popularity of the obvious distortion "foobar" has caused me considerable concern. This change should not be used as proof of evolution. There has to be an intelligence that provided the new information.

[billyskank]

4. Worry not

FUBAR still means what it means, and "foobar" does not, although it is pronounced the same.

Foobar is popular amongst hackers, "foo" and "bar" being the first two metasyntactic variables. (If you need an arbitrary name for anything, it's called foo. The second thing is called bar, then baz, quz, quuz, etc.)

[parkening]

15. Learn something new every day

There is a veritable fount of knowledge flowing throughout the DU! Thanks.

[St. Jarvitude]

12. Either you don't hang out with geeks enough

Or you hang out with them too much and they've played tricks with your brain :)

[parkening]

16. Among my friends

I am the only geek (and not the computer kind). They don't leave me alone with their chickens.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

5. BAR!

[billyskank]

6. No foo?

[donheld]

7. Bar you foo

:evilgrin:

[billyskank]

8. A dead heat?

How unsatisfying! Don't tell me the Lounge is a 50:50 forum!

[no name no slogan]

9. Foo this

Foo up by a nose

[billyskank]

10. Foo is the last thing you want up a nose

[cheezus]

11. goo=foo(bar);

[billyskank]

14. #include foo.h

while (bar) {
foo();
}

[maveric]

13. Its Foo! Everyone knows its Foo!

Foo for all!