I could indeed give some explanations but I fear they won't be as exhaustive as in the RFC 3092.

A LOT of french coders use toto (and its phonetic derivatives tata,tutu,titi).

'toto' has always been used as common name, in school
('toto is riding a bicyle a 10 mph, how long will it take to makes 25 miles ?')
or in common life where it's used in joke and examples.

It's part of our culture, just as I suppose you (english/american ?) use 'joe'.

The laziness factor is also inportant as 'toto' is even faster to type than 'azerty'(our 'qwerty') or '1234'.

"Only Bad Coders Badly Code In Perl" (OBC2IP)

In reply to Re: Re (tilly) 2: Etymology of Foo, RFC 3092 by arhuman
in thread Etymology of Foo, RFC 3092 by strredwolf

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