From: Christian Holm Christensen (cholm@hehi03.nbi.dk)
Date: Thu May 01 2003 - 07:53:34 EDT
Hi Jens Ivar et al, Jens Ivar Jordre <jensivar.jordre@fi.uib.no> wrote concerning Re: Brag problem [Wed, 30 Apr 2003 21:15:34 +0200] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Howdy(!!) > > Flemming Videbaek wrote: > > I guess I cannot bring my self to use the term 'howdy y'all' - on ther > > other hands my scripts aren't called foobar > > since I happen to know what it stands for and have higher standards. I guess what Flemming meant to refer to is `FUBAR', which is a completely different thing from FOOBAR. Please refer to the jargon [1], item `FOO' [2], or FOLDOC [3], item `FUBAR'. Reading those, you'll understand why some people would find it offencive to use that acronym, and hence Flemmings reservations. About the `Howdy y'all': I learned that lesson early on - take a look at the thread that starts here [5] > Referring www.jargon.org [1] I don't find anything wrong about it, but > maybe they don't include all meanings of the word. On the contrary I > think it is a great name to use. It is like a potato. It can be used > with _anything_. :) But `FUBAR' can not. > > demonstrating the old fact the even well running programs has bugs that > > may eat you or at least > > sting you one day. There's an old saying: `If it hasn't got any bugs, it hasn't got enough features!' Yours, ___ | Christian Holm Christensen |_| | ------------------------------------------------------------- | | Address: Sankt Hansgade 23, 1. th. Phone: (+45) 35 35 96 91 _| DK-2200 Copenhagen N Cell: (+45) 24 61 85 91 _| Denmark Office: (+45) 353 25 305 ____| Email: cholm@nbi.dk Web: www.nbi.dk/~cholm | | [1] www.jargon.org [2] www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/foo.html [3] www.foldoc.org [4] foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?query=FUBAR [5] www.sdcc.bnl.gov/brahms/private/list_hyper/brahms-soft-l/0045.html
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