一直不明白 foobar和The quick brown fox.....是什么意思

welbird

经常看到老外的书里有
foobar
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
但我不知道究竟是啥意思。
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.的意思大概是这个句子里包含了每个英文字母。
但foobar是什么意思啊？查了字典上也没有。

oasas

FooBar is a classic name in program examples, documentation etc (AmericanCulturalAssumption?). Some have been of the opinion that it's a cleaned up version of its cousin FuBar, but this seems unlikely; its etymology appears to be quite different. The canonical sources of information about this are the JargonFile at http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/F/foo.html and RFC 3092 (at numerous locations, one of which is http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3092.html.)

If I were you, I will google it.