Using "Foo" and "Bar" in examples

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Published on 2008-10-02T16:10:49Z Indexed on 2010/05/27 6:01 UTC
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Why do code examples (mostly tutorials) use the names "Foo" and "Bar" so often? It is almost a standard.

For example:

void foo(char* bar) {
  printf("%s", bar);
}

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