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Andre Goncalves

Foo and bar comes from 'fubar'. Here is what Wikipedia says about it (censored by me):

FUBAR is a military acronym for "f*** up beyond all recognition" (or, expurgated, fouled up). Alternatively "...beyond all repair", or "...beyond all reason").

Tbh that's often the status of my code, so I'll keep using it lol