>>Aww, how can you be worried about sweet, harmless Fuu? She's the
>>nicest girl at Crescent Heights Middle School. :)
>
>As long as she doesn't have a brother/sister/cousin/best friend/etc
>named 'Bar' <or anything that is phonetically equivalent>. I've seen
>way too many 'foo' 'bar' pairs lately.

Nope. She does have an elder sister, but her name is Kuu.

>"Must every compuer book written in English use 'foo''bar' in
>examples?"

Yup. It's as close to a standard as computing has.

http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/metasyntactic-variable.html

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