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Understanding Foobar, Foo, Bar, Baz, Qux, and Quux in Programming and Linux
Every programmer learns foo and bar before they learn what they mean. Where the words came from (a 1930s comic strip, Second World War slang and an MIT model railroad club), what comes after quux, what other countries…
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The Birth of C and Its Relationship to Unix
C exists because Unix needed it, and Unix spread because C made it portable. How a language built for one minicomputer became the foundation of nearly every operating system, why it won, and why the White House spent…