What is The Foo ?

[ZagSlug]

From Wikipedia

Foo is a metasyntactic variable used heavily in computer science to represent concepts abstractly and can be used to represent any part of a complicated system or idea including the data, variables, functions, and commands just to name a few. Foo is commonly used with the metasyntactic variables bar and foobar. The word foo itself has no meaning and is merely a commonly used logical representation that is used much like the letters 'X' and 'Y' in algebra.

[a13coach]

main(){
foo(bar());
return 0 ;
}

[lothar98zag]

Originally Posted by a13coach

foo(bar

Foo bar = FUBAR

[RenoZag]

Bush = FUBAR

[kitzbuel]

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[kitzbuel]

You know that if you reply to this topic, the top of the page says Foo, Foo??

[SammamiZag]

Hopefully this won't get so out of hand that there will be forums called "bar", "baz", "quux", and "quuuux"

if (!(gonzaga.win))
{
foobar = true;
MessageBox.Show("ARGHGHGH!!!!!");
return;
}

[Zag79]

FOO-bu.

[UberZagFan]

Originally Posted by Zag79

FOO-bu.

Foo you.

[UberZagFan]

Is bowser bowser on this forum?

[a13coach]

Originally Posted by SammamiZag

Hopefully this won't get so out of hand that there will be forums called "bar", "baz", "quux", and "quuuux"

if (!(gonzaga.win))
{
foobar = true;
MessageBox.Show("ARGHGHGH!!!!!");
return;
}

Why set the foobar flag true if you are not going to use it? Why not override Messagbox.Show and send foobar as the arg and have it do the work?

[SammamiZag]

Originally Posted by a13coach

Why set the foobar flag true if you are not going to use it? Why not override Messagbox.Show and send foobar as the arg and have it do the work?

Good call. I'm glad this board also has a built-in compiler that throws good errors and warnings!

[a13coach]

But then again you could take the Perl approach.
"There's more than one way to do it."

Far be it for me to parse someone's code...got beat up plenty of times during code reviews.

[lothar98zag]

This thread is starting to make my head hurt

[a13coach]

Lothar,
I thought for sure all this was old hat to you.

[lothar98zag]

posting nonsense - yes.

coding - not so much.

[lothar98zag]

fwiw...

i took a semester of computer programming at GU - almost 100% fortran, I think. (graduated in 98 and it was probably a soph level class)

never had to deal w/ it again after that class ended. thank god! (even though I'm pretty sure I got an A in the class)

[Zag79]

there are too many forums to keep up with.... making my head spin

[lothar98zag]

They should add more forums.

One titled "Ask Lothar" would be a good addition. A lot of bad advice and incorrect answers could be given...

[Zag79]

if you leave the title "ask..." and that already exists for many of us.

[a13coach]

Originally Posted by lothar98zag

fwiw...

i took a semester of computer programming at GU - almost 100% fortran, I think. (graduated in 98 and it was probably a soph level class)

never had to deal w/ it again after that class ended. thank god! (even though I'm pretty sure I got an A in the class)

Okay then just to make you feel more comfortable.

PROGRAM SUM3
!
! This program reads in three numbers and sums
! and averages them
!
IMPLICIT NONE
REAL :: N1,N2,N3,Average = 0.0, Total = 0.0
INTEGER :: N = 3
PRINT *,' Type in three numbers.'
PRINT *,' Separated by spaces or commas'
READ *,N1,N2,N3
Total= N1 + N2 + N3
Average=Total/N
PRINT *,'Total of numbers is ',Total
PRINT *,'Average of the numbers is ',Average
END PROGRAM SUM3

[lothar98zag]

don't make me report you!

[a13coach]

Ooh alright I'll be good.

[SammamiZag]

PROGRAM SUM3
!
! This program reads in three numbers and sums
! and averages them
!
IMPLICIT NONE
...

Alright that's before my time.

As a recent graduate of GU, the CS department pounded C++ into our heads (as well as the .NET platform which I now work with at my job). Not sure if that's changed now that CS is in the Engineering dept - I just missed that transition.

Any cs/enginerds remember suffering through cpen 231?


ORG $C000
LDS #$DFFF
CLR DDRC
LDAA #2


...OK, I'm done. Sorry guys... even that makes my eyes bleed.

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