The terms foobar (/ˈfuːbɑːr/), foo, bar, baz, qux, quux, and others are used as metasyntactic variables and placeholder names in computer programming or
member of Tech Squares, and a member of Callerlab. Under the pseudonym Great Quux, which was an old student nickname at the Boston Latin School and MIT, he
Sprodzoom" by Gareth Rees and Simon Arrowsmith "The Great Quux Poem Collection" by the Great Quux includes poems about the game written in January 1977.