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xmonkee on May 5, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: My favorite debugging tool

And foobar is a word that has come to mean FUBAR.

lilyball on May 6, 2014 [–]

[citation needed]

No, seriously. "foobar" does not mean FUBAR. The linked article here is quite literally the only time I have ever seen "foobar" used in place of FUBAR, and the Jargon file also stresses that "foobar" is not generally used to mean FUBAR.

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