April 1, 2009
Metahint
PlaySupposedly the origins of which famous term in computing?
Cracked by alephnull , Bipin Banavalikar , Rahulk , Raghuvansh , Dibyo , udupendra , foobar (given for the username) , Prasad , darthshak , Siddharth Jain and madhur.
Answer:
The foomobile, from the Smokey Stover cartoon series. First documented usage of the word “foo”, which went on to become a metasyntactic variable used in all programming languages :)
Happy April FOOl’s day folks. Hope you liked the falling scientists.
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April 1st, 2009 at 9:42 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1238622144 )
The first of the metasyntactic variables: foo. The Smokey Stover cartoon on the car kind of gave it away.
April 1st, 2009 at 9:52 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1238622750 )
Word ‘Foo’
Just a guess!!!!
April 1st, 2009 at 11:15 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1238627710 )
It absolutely FOOlish of you ask such a question on April FOOls day….
April 2nd, 2009 at 12:42 am, GMT +0000 ( 1238632947 )
Smokey Stover, 2 wheeled car, comic strip connect, hence Foo.
April 2nd, 2009 at 1:49 am, GMT +0000 ( 1238636974 )
foo, from foomobile.
April 2nd, 2009 at 1:53 am, GMT +0000 ( 1238637207 )
foo
April 2nd, 2009 at 4:24 am, GMT +0000 ( 1238646274 )
Is it Volkswagen Bug?
April 2nd, 2009 at 6:46 am, GMT +0000 ( 1238654793 )
hashing ?
April 2nd, 2009 at 9:23 am, GMT +0000 ( 1238664239 )
Foo!
Good one…
April 2nd, 2009 at 11:35 am, GMT +0000 ( 1238672108 )
foomobile from Smokey Stover
April 2nd, 2009 at 12:15 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1238674506 )
The metasyntactical term Foo
In the picture is the Foomobile.
April 2nd, 2009 at 4:11 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1238688665 )
Foo
April 2nd, 2009 at 5:50 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1238694628 )
Foo or Foobar used in programming languages
April 3rd, 2009 at 1:01 am, GMT +0000 ( 1238720470 )
Besht:
foobar Says:
April 2nd, 2009 at 4:24 am, GMT -0700 ( 1238671474 ) Is it Volkswagen Bug?
April 3rd, 2009 at 8:34 am, GMT +0000 ( 1238747681 )
Foo