Posted by ipnon 8 hours ago
It wasn't until I tried building something (mad libs) that things "clicked"
I found that hilarious as I was hiking through that pass last year (beautiful area).
I never claimed I was terribly mature.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasyntactic_variable#Italian
I've seen foo, bar, baz, qu+x, plugh and xyxxy actually in use, not the others.
I've not used "qux" or followed the convention of adding more u's. From me it's been just foo, bar, baz, quux and then some Monty Python inspired ones: spam, ni, ecky, ptong.
Although eventually I learned enough about how to name things that I don't feel the temptation any more. I'll gladly pay that bit of joylessness to understand myself months later.
my advice to junior programmers after i see them agonising over a name - "just call it x or foo for now, you are going to change it later anyway"