“ Once again text & parenthesis – sound synthesis with Foo ”

When the Foo-project evolved at ZKM Karlsruhe in 1993, nobody knew how to call it. Just to be able to talk about, it got the working title “foo” according to RFC 3092. When it came to the first publicly available version, its “nickname” had got deep into the slang of the authors, and considering that “foo” may stand for the two main programming paradigms used in it (functional and object oriented) it was decided, not without some irony, to leave it as its name. Due to that, the installation of Foo at IRCAM’s computers was refused by their administrator first. . . Since the SourceForge team has been granted the takeover of the sample project “foo” when the program was ten years old in late 2003, the existence of /usr/bin/foo is legalized now. To avoid confusion, we discourage from using the term “foo” as a general sample name in the future :-)