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== [[Real Life]] ==
* Metasyntactic variables used commonly across all programming languages include ''foobar, foo, bar, baz, qux, quux, quuz, corge, grault, garply, waldo, fred, [[Colossal Cave Adventure|plugh, xyzzy]]'', and ''thud''; several of these words are references to the game ''[[Colossal Cave Adventure]]''
** ''Wibble, wobble, wubble'', and ''flob'' are also used in the UK.
* Japanese programmers commonly use ''hoge'' (ほげ)[5] and ''piyo'' (ぴよ), with other common words and variants being ''fuga'' (ふが), ''hogera'' (ほげら), and ''hogehoge'' (ほげほげ).
* In France, the word ''toto'' is widely used by programmers, with variants ''tata, titi'', and ''tutu'' as related placeholders.
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