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Foobar

The terms foobar, foo, bar, baz, quux, and others are used as metasyntactic variables in computer programming or computer-related documentation. They have been used to name entities such as variables, functions, and commands whose exact identity is unimportant and serve only to demonstrate a concept.

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Foobar

Nodes37
Edges36
Triples32
Avg. degree1.95
Density0.054054
Components1

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Foobar

Top relations

related to history · 13
Foobar → According, Bill Holman, Chinese, FOO, FUBAR, Holman, If, Internet Engineering Task Force, It, RFC, San Francisco Chinatown, Smokey Stover, World War II-era
related to Examples in culture · 10
Foobar → BarCamp, Bill Gates, During, Foo Camp, Microsoft, Microsoft Corp, Steve Ballmer, United States, Web Services Interoperability, WS-I
related to External links · 4
Foobar → Address Records, FTP Operation Over Big, Google, Jargon File
is a · 1
Foobar → playful allusion to the World War II-era military slang FUBAR

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foo used programming word variables use tmrc variable bar documentation mit also states clock entry terms computer name rfc scram

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Foobaris aplayful allusion to the World War II-era military slang FUBAR0.90text
variablesinstance ofThey have been used to name entities0.80text
functionsinstance ofThey have been used to name entities0.80text
and commands whose exact identity is unimportantinstance ofThey have been used to name entities0.80text
serve only to demonstrate a conceptinstance ofThey have been used to name entities0.80text
Foobarrelated to Examples in cultureFoo Camp0.60section
Foobarrelated to Examples in cultureBarCamp0.60section
Foobarrelated to Examples in cultureDuring0.60section
Foobarrelated to Examples in cultureUnited States0.60section
Foobarrelated to Examples in cultureMicrosoft Corp0.60section
Foobarrelated to Examples in cultureMicrosoft0.60section
Foobarrelated to Examples in cultureWeb Services Interoperability0.60section

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