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Discussion on: Against 'foo' (and 'bar' too)

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Leonardo Teteo • Edited

It seems that 'x' in math sounds much more familiar to us than 'foo' and 'bar' in programming because we are old enough to not remember the first time we saw 'x' in an equation back there in primary school, but it was the same feeling. Straining my memory I can remember that the teacher actually had to explain that 'x' is just a way to say the value is unknown and can be any letter you want. So, I agree that in some cases it may have better names, but it is not something we must stop using altogether, it makes part of the programming world and it is a knowledge that you acquire pretty quickly and you will remember for the rest of your life, like 'x' in math.