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RE: FOO vs FO
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- Subject: RE: [xsl] FOO vs FO
- From: DPawson at rnib dot org dot uk
- Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 13:57:25 +0100
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What a mine of information this list is!
I still prefer Jim's, although to see an RFC
made me chuckle.
> It's a law. "random strings" in examples have to be "foo" and "bar".
> This law was laid down by Kernighan and Richie at the same time they
> were defining the language C. Whilst C is an imperative programming
> language (thus an ugly blot on the landscape to the pure and virtuous
> members of the declarative programming community as found on
> this list)
> some aspects of C have spread to all languages, and using foo,bar in
> examples is one.
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