Turns out “foo/bar/baz” has lore. I assumed it was just tribal placeholder magic.
Now I’m wondering what other dev fossils we still carry around - IDDQD (Doom god-mode) is a personal favorite. What’s yours?
IDDQD stands for Id Delta Quit Delta, a fraternity created by DOOM programmer Dave Taylor who released that if you drop out or quit a course you get a statistically-better final grade than you would by failing the course. Of course, you still end up not achieving a degree, hence when used in-game it shows "Degreelessness Mode" activated.
Petroleum is used by everyone right? And it's a literal fossil. I wouldn't call it a fossil because all terminology has lore, but the idea as I understand it is that it's an artifact that outlived the context it was originally relevant in.
I think foo never outlived what it was from the beginning - a way to harmlessly goof around while describing complex systems & patterns.
So, really dunno why the commenter above wanted to atribute all the fooness to something "ancient".
PS. Unsure why to mix petroleum into this discussion..
