[TUHS] Whence did "XXX" come about?

[Christopher Browne]

On Thu., Sep. 3, 2020, 6:14 p.m. Steve Nickolas, <usotsuki at buric.co> wrote:

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> I use "XXX" too - usually in the form "XXX FIXME".


Timing is everything, especially in humour...

I nearly choked on something when I realized this thread was going on as I
read notes on the PostgreSQL list where the somewhat famous (?) Tom Lane
observed that he was planning to comment a commit to password management
code with "XXX FIXME"

:-) :-) :-)

So this is clearly an idiom still in active use!!!
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