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		shurane on June 29, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Google Reader Replacement written in Haskell and... It's from the sequence of ["foo","bar","baz","qux", "quux", ...]. More info at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasyntactic_variable#English Doesn't sound like a great name, but whatever. It's a placeholder at least.

tome on June 29, 2013 | [–]

I had no idea "qux" came before "quux". How embarrassing. It's like counting "one, two, three, five".

nakedrobot2 on June 29, 2013 | [–]

Oh! Thanks for explaining. I had no idea.

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