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The English words foo, bar and baz are often used as placeholder nonsense names in programming. In French, "toto, titi, tata, tutu" are common. Which words are used for this purpose in German code? To clarify: Although company-local traditions are interesting, that's not what I'm asking about. |
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Since programming is often deeply connected with the English language, I guess many if not most people use foo, bar, etc. too. However there is of course blub and blubber or at my company blurbs, blurbsi, blubberhupps and the like are hot. It's sort of a local meme. |
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You could go with dings–bums, dingens–kirchens, bla–blubb–blafasel. But if we are talking about programming context, then I wager the English placeholders foo and bar are the most popular by far. |
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Bla is sometimes used. And Blub if you need a second. But since the actual code language is typically English, not German, you can use the same as in English. In my company, however, you'll find a suspicious amount of I hate the use of foo, bar, baz, by the way. Better think of real examples. Now that I think about it, I rarely encountered German examples with foo, bar and baz. May be coincedence though. |
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A friend has told me that his professor extensively used “wilde” (= “wild”) and “wutz” (= diminutive of “boar”, “pig”) as metasyntactic variables. To this day, these are my favourites. |
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All German Programmers I know use foo / bar. So do I, most of the time, but my own private variation is: Nase, Hase, Vase, Blase (etc.) |
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This is not representative, but my first variable of choice is always "willi", followed by "otto" and then "franz" |
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Ich nehm eene, meene, miste. Kommt glaub ich aus der Augsburger Puppenkiste. "Eene, meene, miste, es rappelt in der Kiste ...". Bedeutet, soweit ich weiß, in etwa das gleiche wie foo bar baz. :-) |
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I once worked on a project where the temporary or test variables were always called Hugo. Don't know though if anyone else uses it. |
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Muh, lala and bum, of course. |
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