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According to local legend, in the deep dark past, the Grateful Dead used to perform there before they made it big.
I was re-vamping some file format code and needed a couple of magic numbers: one for the persistent object file, and one for classes.
I used CAFEDEAD for the object file format, and in grepping for 4 character hex words that fit after " CAFE " ( it seemed to be a good theme ) I hit on BABE and decided to use it.
At that time, it didn't seem terribly important or destined to go anywhere but the trash-can of history.
But the persistent object facility went away, and along with it went the use of CAFEDEAD-it was eventually replaced by RMI.
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