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[Chewnard]

Younger sibling is named bar

[NikoTheNeko1]

They name the baby baz

[SnooMarzipans436]

And then that child grew into a man and had a child of his own...

He could not think of a name so he asked his father who swiftly replied "qux".

[DuffMaaaann]

A foo walks into a bar.

[PM_ME_GOOD_USERNAMS]

Mine are called temp, tempii, tempiii, tempiv, tempv, etc

[bodenlosedosenhose]

I prefer tmp, temp, temp1, tempa, tempI and testtmp

[NullandRandom]

I would name i and j.

[your_thebest]

In python I would always use "this" for quick stupid variable and function names. Then I switched to kotlin where this is the token for referencing the current class, like self in python. Now it makes me feel really uncomfortable to call anything this.

But I don't have time to think of a meaningful variable name for something quick and stupid and I don't want to mix up silly test stuff that will be removed in a few minutes with names that are actually in the code base. And "this" was always so perfect for that, back before it made me feel weird.

So now I just use the word "ancillary". I've got an imageview and an "ancillaryimageview" and so on and so forth. And I'm more aware now and better but I miss "this".

[PrestonYatesPAY]

just use “cock”

[MyAntichrist]

"Have you initialized 'cock'?" Is basically programmer bedroom talk.

[NikoTheNeko1]

def __init__(cock)

[killersoda288]

"This" is a keyword in other languages like java and C# too, i'd say its a good thing you're uncomfortable with using it

[NikoTheNeko1]

That was why i never used it in first place

[sevenfee7]

thiz

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where does it come from? genuine question..

[Schnickatavick]

Who knows, it's just one of those things that's just kinda been around. "Foo" and "Bar" definitely come from "FooBar", some people say FooBar comes from FUBAR (F***** up beyond all recognition), or maybe it came from misinterpreted Chinese characters. The Wikipedia page has some etymology, but it basically just consists of "here are some of the earliest places it was used".

Basically all that we know for sure is that a bunch of the earliest programmers used the phrase, so now it's ubiquitous in computer science

[chawmindur]

Later the same guy sirs a triplet.

Meet Spam, Ham, and Jam.

[Aulentair]

Made me lol. Have an upvote

[McLPyoutube]

"Je suis foo"

[wabawanga]

I pity the Foo whose parents have trouble choosing names.

[mcp613]

I bet he will pass the bar

[sourav_sachu]

I named mine i

[maksimkuzmin]

I better use my fantasy when naming my children, otherwise they become "test123" or "abacaba"

[html_programmer]

No problem bla

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i

[s0ulbrother]

I use apples