Usage in Culture
$foo is the name of a Perl programming magazine, and Foo Camp is an annual hacker convention.
During the United States v. Microsoft trial, some evidence was presented that Microsoft had tried to use the Web Services Interoperability organization as a means to stifle competition, including e-mails in which top executives including Bill Gates referred to the WS-I using the codename "foo".
These terms gave the name to foobar2000, an audio player independently developed using C++, as its author was more focussed on producing a functional program than on aesthetics.
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