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foobar

(jargon)

Another common metasyntactic variable; see foo. Hackers do *not* generally use this to mean FUBAR in either the slang or jargon sense.

According to a german correspondent, the term was coined during WW2 by allied troops who could not pronounce the german word "furchtbar" (horrible, terrible, awful).

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foo

A popular name for a temporary file, function or variable, or an example of same in documentation. Often used with "bar" to create "foobar," which is a variation of FUBAR. FUBAR came out of World War II and means "F***ed Up Beyond All Recognition."

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Supposed that the FooBar component (as shown in Figure 3) has been implemented in CAR and the corresponding HPO classes have been defined in Java (as shown in Algorithm 2), a normal Java class is required to serve as a client that instantiates the HPO classes; therefor the HPO can be accessed by other Java classes in an Android application.

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