From: ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire)
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Subject: Re: what's "foo"?
Date: 12 Nov 1997 04:30:28 GMT
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Mark H. Wood (mwood AT indyvax DOT iupui DOT edu) writes:
> People who've hung around Digital Equipment products also recognize BAZ.  BAZ
> was a STOPCD (crash reason) on TOPS-10 meaning Bit Already Zero, which (when
> you wanted to flip it to zero) is a particular way of being FUBARed.

Someone oughta update that into the jargon file! Cause it isn't in there
yet... the origin of BAZ.

struct foo { int x; double y; };
foo bar;
foo baz;

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Paul Derbyshire ao950 AT freenet DOT carleton DOT ca, http://chat.carleton.ca/~pderbysh