waldo /wol'doh/ n.
[From Robert A. Heinlein's story
"Waldo"] 1. A mechanical agent, such as a gripper arm,
controlled by a human limb. When these were developed for the
nuclear industry in the mid-1940s they were named after the
invention described by Heinlein in the story, which he wrote in
1942. Now known by the more generic term `telefactoring', this
technology is of intense interest to NASA for tasks like space
station maintenance. 2. At Harvard (particularly by Tom Cheatham
and students), this is used instead of foobar as a
metasyntactic variable and general nonsense word. See foo,
bar, foobar, quux.
[From Robert A. Heinlein's story
"Waldo"] 1. A mechanical agent, such as a gripper arm,
controlled by a human limb. When these were developed for the
nuclear industry in the mid-1940s they were named after the
invention described by Heinlein in the story, which he wrote in
1942. Now known by the more generic term `telefactoring', this
technology is of intense interest to NASA for tasks like space
station maintenance. 2. At Harvard (particularly by Tom Cheatham
and students), this is used instead of foobar as a
metasyntactic variable and general nonsense word. See foo,
bar, foobar, quux.
Related:
- waldo: /wol'doh/ [From Robert A. Heinlein's story "Waldo"]
1
A mechanical agent, such as a gripper arm, controlled... - foo /foo/
1. interj. Term of disgust. 2. [very
common] Used very generally as a sample name for absolutely
anything
esp. programs and files (esp. scratch files). 3. First... - metasyntactic variable n.
A name used in examples and
understood to stand for whatever thing is under discussion
or any random member of a class of things under... - bar /bar/ n.
1. [very common] The second
metasyntactic variable
after foo and before ...." 2. Often appended to foo... - bar: /bar/ n. 1. The second {metasyntactic variable}
after {foo} and before {baz}. "Suppose we have... - quux /kwuhks/ n.
[Mythically, from the Latin
semi-deponent verb quuxo
quuxare, quuxandum iri; noun form variously `quux'... - quux: /kwuhks/ [Mythically, from the Latin semi-deponent verb
quuxo
quuxare, quuxandum iri; noun form variously `quux'... - FOO 1. [from the Yiddish 'feh' or Anglo-Saxon 'fooey'] interj
Term of disgust. 2. [from FUBAR, WWII acronym, often... - baz: /baz/ n. 1. The third {metasyntactic variable} "Suppose we
have three functions
FOO, BAR, and BAZ. FOO calls BAR, which calls BAZ...
