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Metasyntactic

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Stumbling on a thread in Python-Dev yields this quite funny quote by Python luminary Tim Peters:

Indeed, when I design my killer language, the identifiers “foo” and “bar” will be reserved words, never used, and not even mentioned in the reference manual. Any program using one will simply dump core without comment. Multitudes will rejoice.

– Tim Peters, 29 Apr 1998

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