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This series was popular at CMU. Other CMU-associated variables include gorp. |
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This series is reported to be common at XEROX PARC. |
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See the entry for fred. These tend to be Britishisms. |
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Popular at Rutgers University and among GOSMACS hackers. |
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Cambridge University (England). |
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Berkeley, GeoWorks, Ingres. Pronounced /shme/ with a short /e/. |
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Brown University, early 1970s. |
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Helsinki University of Technology, Finland. |
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Italy. Pippo /pee'po/ and Paperino /pa-peree'-no/ are the Italian names for Goofy and Donald Duck. |
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The Netherlands. These are the first words a child used to learn to spell on a Dutch spelling board. |
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Of all these, only foo and bar are universal (and baz nearly so). The compounds foobar and foobaz also enjoy very wide currency. |
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Some jargon terms are also used as metasyntactic names; barf and mumble, for example. See also Commonwealth Hackish for discussion of numerous metasyntactic variables found in Great Britain and the Commonwealth. |
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MFTL /M-F-T-L/ [abbreviation: 'My Favorite Toy Language/] 1. adj. Describes a talk on a programming language design that is heavy on the syntax (with lots of BNF), sometimes even talks about semantics (e.g., type systems), but rarely, if ever, has any content (see content-free). More broadly applied to talks even when the topic is not a programming language in which the subject matter is gone into in unnecessary and meticulous detail at the sacrifice of any conceptual content. "Well, it was a typical MFTL talk". 2. n. Describes a language about which the developers are passionate (often to the point of proselytic zeal) but no one else cares about. Applied to the |
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